The group affirmed that such illegal action adopted by a section of the national hierarchy of the ruling party in Nigeria without due respect for a subsisting action before a competent court of law on the same subject matter was a direct affront to the avowed principle of respect for rule of law as espoused by President Muhammadu Buhari in almost all his public speeches.
HURIWA, in a statement to DAILY POST on Sunday, signed by its National Coordinator Emmanuel Onwubiko, further reminded the APC “that he who goes to equity must go with clean hands.” It stated that “the reported expulsion or suspension of Abdul-Kadir, a former Sokoto state Attorney General and a former federal cabinet minister, without fair hearing offends the fundamental kernel of the sanctity of the principle of rule of law and amounts to disobedience of the judicial powers of the federation clothed on the Courts of competent jurisdiction including the Sokoto High Court of Justice which is currently handling a legal challenge mounted by Abdul-Kadir questioning the...