The battle for the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State was on Friday decided by the Supreme Court, with the faction led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, defeating the faction led by Ibrahim Shekarau, a former governor of the state.
This came as the apex court upheld the Ganduje-led factional leadership of the party in the state.
The Shekarau faction and the Ganduje group had been in legal battle over the authentic leadership of the party in the state.
Ganduje’s faction has Abdullahi Abbas as state chairman, while Shekarau’s group has Haruna Danzago as its chairman.
Settling the matter in a lead judgement delivered by Inyang Okoro, on Friday, the Supreme Court sacked the appeal against the earlier judgements of the Court of Appeal in Abuja after adjudging it to be lacking in merit.
Recall that the Court of Appeal had last February dismissed three appeals that were lodged over the originating summons wrongly commenced in Abuja.
The appellate court said the matter was an internal affair of the APC.
The appeals came after two rulings of an FCT High Court upheld the ward and local government congresses won by Shekarau’s faction.