On Thursday, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano extended an olive branch to the Ibrahim Shekarau-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Responding to the judgment after a thank-you visit to the APC national secretariat in Abuja, Mr Ganduje asked the Shekarau-led faction to give peace a chance.

The Abuja Court of Appeal dismissed the judgment of a lower court, which upheld the parallel congresses of APC conducted by the ‘G-7’ faction of the party led by Mr Shekarau.

The appellate court insisted that the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court lacked the jurisdiction to sit on the APC ward and local government council congresses, which recognised Haruna Ahmadu Danzago as party chairman.

The court also held that the case was not a pre-election issue but an internal party tussle and should be decided by the party’s Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee.

Mr Ganduje appealed to the faction to join hands to build the party.

”Kani State is 100 per cent APC. I am appealing to Shakarau’s faction because we are members of one family: the APC. We should come together and forge ahead to build the party,” said the governor.

He confirmed that the APC national secretariat had given Abdullahi Abbas a certificate of return as the authentic state chairman.

“I have to thank the party for that, a judgement has been passed in our favour, and APC stakeholders in Kano are here to show our appreciation to the leadership of the party,” added the Kano governor. “We thank the House leader, senators, other representatives of the 44 local government chairmen, state assembly members, elected councillors from Kano state and you members of the press for covering all the court proceedings.”

(NAN)