The head office of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) faction which suspended Nasir el-Rufai, governor of
Kaduna state, has been demolished.
It was learnt that the
demolition was carried out under the supervision of armed security personnel
and some suspected thugs.
The team which pulled down the
building located at 11B, Sambo road, GRA Kaduna, was said to have arrived at
the place around 4am on Tuesday.
The faction known as Kaduna
Restoration Group is led by Suleiman Hukunyi, senator representing Kaduna north
central.
An aide of Hukunyi simply
identified as Abdulraham revealed that soldiers blocked the two entrances
of the building while the exercise was going on.
“The bulldozer was accompanied by
armed soldiers who blocked both sides of the road leading to the building,” he
said.
Some loyalists of Hunkuyi have
accused el-Rufai of masterminding the act but the governor is yet to respond as
Samuel Aruwan, his spokesman, did not reply a text message sent to him.
However, a senior government
official who did not want to be named said the demolition was carried out by
the Kaduna state Urban and Property Development Agency (KASUPDA).
He said the property was
allocated for residential purposes and not for political activities.
Although the crisis in the Kaduna
chapter of the APC has been on since 2015, it reached its height on Thursday
when Hukunyi group issued a query to el-Rufai and suspended three of the
governor’s aides.
El-Rufai had dismissed the query
but the group gave him 48 hours to respond to allegations of anti-party
activities levelled against him.
In a swift reaction, the APC
faction loyal to el-Rufai suspended Hunkuyi and 28 members of his group.
But that did not stop the
anti-el-Rufai group from suspending the governor for six months.
Another faction loyal to the
governor overruled the suspension, describing it as laughable.
There are three APC factions in
Kaduna: “government house faction”, “APC -Akida” led by Shehu Sani, senator
representing Kaduna central, and the Kaduna Restoration Group.
The crisis is coming at a time
President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Bola Tinubu, national leader of the party,
to reconcile aggrieved individuals in the APC.
Responding on Sunday, Sani said
the ruling party is doomed if Tinubu’s mission flops.
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