✓Justice Na’Abba of Kano State High Court nullified Kwankwaso’s NNPP suspension.
✓Aggrieved members barred from NNPP leadership roles.
✓Interim injunction restrains respondents from acting as national officers.
✓Another injunction sets aside Kwankwaso’s suspension, restraining INEC from recognizing it.
✓Proceedings adjourned to March 11 after substituted service ordered on respondents.
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Justice Usman Mallam Na’Abba of the Kano State High Court has nullified the suspension of a former governor of the state, Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso, from the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP.
The court, while delivering its ruling on a suit marked K/M1175/2023, further barred some aggrieved members of the party from taking over or acting as National Officers of the NNPP.
Specifically, Justice Na’Abba issued an order of interim injunction, “restraining the respondents, by themselves, their agents, cronies, and whosoever acting or acting through them, from parading themselves, issuing a press release, or granting interviews as national officers, leaders, or members of the applicant, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
He equally held that “An order of interim injunction is hereby granted setting aside the purported suspension of Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as member of the Applicant and restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission, from recognising the purported suspension, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.”
