Barely a month after his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Zamfara State governor, Bello
The former governor who is currently a serving Senator stated: “The purpose of this press briefing is to tell our teeming supporters at home and well-wishers where we are. Sometime in June we were told that APC has got another big catch in Zamfara, where the governor of the state has made up his mind to join our party, which was a plus.
“We gave them a memorandum because we own the party, we are holding the party and so we say that we are going to relinquish 20 per cent and we are going to hold 80 per cent, and we are expecting that the governor would relinquish 20 per cent of government to us and hold the 80 per cent of his government. That is the proposal we gave to the committee.
“They are trying to create an issue which is not an issue. We have books that we registered with people. Our people are the custodians of those books. And the court ordered that status quo should remain. We expected to say, ‘chairman, go to your people, open the books, call the governor and register the people. Now we are waiting to see how many people he is going to register in that state.
The apex court had last week Wednesday delivered a split judgement on the appeal against the judgement of Ondo gubernatorial election petition, saying the written judgement will be delivered afterwards.Before the written judgement was released, there had been different positions analysis and interpretations had been made, with some declaring the continuous stay of Buni as chairman of the party’s Caretaker and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee illegal.
The Supreme Court, he said, upheld further the ruling of the Court of Appeal that “it is evident that the said Governor Mai Mala Buni was appointed only in an acting capacity on a temporary basis to temporarily carry out and fill in the seat of the national chairman of the party pending the elections of new members.”
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