Some leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Zamfara State have instituted a go well with on the State Excessive Courtroom, Gusau, difficult their suspension from the social gathering.
The APC leaders have been suspended for attending Wamban Shinkafi Democratic Entrance’s stakeholders assembly on eleventh November 2025, in Gusau, the state capital.
The go well with was instituted by Babangida Aliyu Shinkafi, who’s the APC chairman, Shinkafi South Ward; Kabiru Ibrahim, APC Welfare Secretary, Shinkafi Native Authorities and Ibrahim DD Kurya, consultant of Individuals With Disabilities, PWD, Shinkafi Native Authorities in opposition to APC.
Others are Alhaji Tukur Danfulani Maikatako Gusau, the APC Zamfara State Chairman and Alhaji Ibrahim Bama Shinkafi, APC Chairman, Shinkafi Native Authorities.
The affected social gathering leaders sought a court docket declaration that they’re bona fide members of the APC.
In addition they sought a declaration that any purported suspension, expulsion, intimidation, harassment or termination of their membership from APC by the defendants or every other individual howsoever referred to as, is unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal, null and void.
“An order of perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, their brokers, servants, assigns or every other individual from taking additional steps to droop, expel, intimidate, harass, terminate the membership or discriminate in opposition to them.
“An order of court docket directing upkeep of establishment and suspension of all actions to do with suspension, expulsion, intimidation, harassment, termination of membership or discrimination in opposition to them, the subject material of this motion, pending the willpower of the substantive go well with earlier than the court docket.”
The plaintiffs mentioned they have been elected at APC congress in 2022 and their tenures subsist, stressing that they belong to the political camp of Dr Sani Abdullahi Shinkafi, the chief of Wamban Shinkafi Democratic Entrance.
They averred that Alhaji Ibrahim Bama Shinkafi, the APC Chairman of Shinkafi Native Authorities orally suspended them with out simply trigger and affordable grounds that they’ve violated the social gathering structure and additional failed to provide them a chance to to defend themselves.
That every one efforts made to cease their suspension failed, and so they should method the court docket for redress.
The go well with was filed by their counsel, Bello Idris Galadi and Associates dated 14th November 2025.
DAILY POST stories that the Zamfara State APC has been in disaster following its defeat by the opposition Peoples Democratic Celebration, PDP, in 2019 and 2023 governorship elections, which has been blamed on the imposition of candidates, suspension, expulsion, marginalisation of social gathering leaders and members within the state.
