A Federal High Court in the Federal Capital Territory had in
March 2020 asked Oshiomhole to step aside following an application of
interlocutory injunction seeking his removal as APC national chairman.
Justice Danlami Senchi had stated that the former Edo
governor should remain suspended pending the determination of the suit.
Senchi also said it was wrong of the ruling party to have
kept Oshiomhole as chairman after he was suspended by his state APC chapter in
November 2019.
Reacting to the apprehension that Ganduje may be heading in
the same direction, Morka insisted that the situations were different.
The APC publicity secretary said that unlike what happened
in Oshiomhole’s case, those pushing for Ganduje’s suspension were not
recognised members of the party.
He said, “No, it is not familiar if you understand the facts
of what happened to Oshiomhole. They are incomparable. They are two different
things altogether. In the case of Oshiomhole when he was the national chairman,
the individuals who were involved in that effort to suspend him and take all
the actions within the party were officials of the party.
“I know no one could have come out at that time to say these
individuals are not legitimate officers of the party. So whether they were
persuaded to do that or compromised, whether they were acting on their free
will and volition is a different conversation. And I am not going to speak to
that. But they were members of the party.
“In this particular case in Kano, we’re seeing people that
we know are not officials of the party. The man who purportedly read the
suspension was physically at the party secretary on Wednesday to say he did not
participate nor authorise any lawyer to go to court to bring this action
against the national chairman. So when the person that is fully disclosed by
identity is the same individual saying he did not, then who the heck was the
individual who went to court? That is the question.
“The difference here is that we have pure imposters
announcing the suspension of our national chairman and they had gone to court
to attempt to affirm that same illegal and criminal act. So I just want to make
sure that that is clear that these individuals are not authorized and not
acting foreign on behalf of the ward. They need to stop because when the dust
settles; there will be consequences for this sort of behaviour.”
