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A group known as the North-Central APC Forum has described the suspension of Abdullahi Ganduje, national chair of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as “shocking”.

Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, Sale Zazzaga, chair of the forum, said there is need to return the office of the national chair to the north-central zone.

Ganduje, from Kano in the north-west, assumed office as APC national chair after Abdullahi Adamu, from Nasarawa in the north-central, resigned from the position.

On April 15, APC executives in Dawakin ward in Tofa LGA of Kano, suspended Ganduje over alleged corruption.

Subsequently, the working committee of the APC in Kano nullified the suspension and punished the ward executives.

A high court went on to uphold the suspension.

Zazzaga said there is need for fairness in the party.

“You will all recall that in the past weeks, our great party, the APC, has been going through some challenges,” he said.

“From calls by concerned minds within the party like the immediate past Zonal Vice chairman north-west, Mallam Salihu Lukman, who continues to speak up against certain palpable anomalies regarding unbalanced distribution of key governmental offices and key leadership positions within the party, to the recently shocking suspension of the National Chairman, H.E. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and several other sundry issues.

“It has become pertinently pressing for us as stakeholders of the north-central to address these issues as they affect the zone.

“First, we the stakeholders of the north-central wish to state respectfully but categorically that the zone, despite its visibly commendable outing for the APC at the 2023 polls, remains at the bottom and the lowest rung of the ladder in the allocation of KEY positions, both in government and within the party.

“This is a huge disadvantage capable of demoralising the zone that so loves the APC as seen in its actions.”

Zazzaga said President Bola Tinubu should look into the “disadvantaged posture the north-central has found itself in”.

“That to correct some of these anomalies, the party may kindly wish to show as a mark of goodwill towards the north-central, take a step back and look again into the provisions of the party’s constitution and return the position to the north-central,” he said.