UPDATED : PDP expels Kwankwaso over anti-party activities

Aminu Wali faction of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday expelled Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from the party for alleged anti-party activities.

The party new Chairman Alhaji Muhammina Bako Lamido announced this at a news conference after holding a State Congress meeting in Kano.

Speaking on Kwankwaso’s sack from the party, the new leadership of the Wali faction alleged that the former Senator engaged in gross violation of the party’s constitution.

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However, Muhammin Bako Lamido and Garba Abdullahi Gezawa emerged chairman and Secretary of the party respectively after a Congress on Thursday.

Solacebase reports that 8,717 delegates converged at the Kano Foundation House and elected 39 new Executive Members of the Party in Kano.

They facilitated the expulsion of Kwankwaso shortly after Congress.

Addressing journalists shortly after the Congress, the newly elected chairman, Muhammina Bako Lamido, said they have conducted fresh Congress because constitutionally the tenure of the old executives have expired.

He recalled that they formed the Interim Executive in 2018 when Kwankwaso joined the party, insisting that they remain the authentic party leadership.

Speaking on the recent Court judgment that recognized Kwankwaso faction as the authentic party leadership, Muhammina Bako Lamido said they have appealed the Judgement, “and as such, all action must remain on the statis-quo-anti until the determination of the upper Court.”