SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, (THEWILL) – The National Vice Chairman (North-east) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Mustapha Salihu, has dissociated himself from an interim court order obtained ordering him to act as the party’s national secretary.
Salihu said he was not a party in the suit and neither did he authorize it, saying that it is not in his character to play dirty politics, especially when the party is going through challenging times.
The FCT High Court sitting at Maitama and presided over by Justice S.U Bature had issued the order earlier on Thursday with Salihu Applicant.
The court via a motion ex-parte had ordered him to act as national secretary pending “the decision of a validly convened National Executive Committee (NEC) or pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice already filed, whichever comes first.”
The motion ex-parte with number FCT/HC/M/7707/2020 was supported by an affidavit sworn by one Obinna Ugwu.
However, Salihu in a telephone interview with journalists Thursday, said: “My zone, the North-east has already nominated Architect Waziri Bulama in the presence of the Senate president, APC governors from the zone and other party stakeholders as the acting national secretary. I was at the meeting where this decision was reached. So why now would I go back to obtain a court order to act as national secretary?
“I was not part of such shenanigan. It is not in my character to play such dirty politics and I condemn in strong terms those behind the act. At a time like this when the party is going through trying times, it is such a time that all lovers of the party must pull together to keep the party running.”
