While restraining them from parading themselves as national officers or leaders of the party pending the hearing and determination of the motion of notice, he also restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising the purported suspension, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice. The PUNCH reports that on August 29, 2023, the members led by NNPP chieftains, Aniebonam and Agbo, suspended Kwankwaso for six months on the allegation of hobnobbing with politicians outside the party. Kwankwaso, a former Kano State governor, came fourth in the 2023 presidential election. They subsequently expelled Kwankwaso over “failure to appear before the Disciplinary Committee.”Aniebonam and Agbo group also accused Kwankwaso of “financial impropriety relating to the mismanagement of public funds.”However, the Kano court restrained Aniebonam, Agbo, and 16 other respondents from parading themselves as party officials and fixed October 5, 2023, for hearing of the case. “An order of interim injunction is, hereby, granted setting aside the purported suspension of Senator Kwankwaso as a member of the applicant and restrains the Independent National Electoral Commission from recognising the purported suspension pending the hearing and determination of the substantive motion on notice.”

Source: Punch September 05, 2023 20:59 UTC