The caretaker committee also described Auwal Isah as an ordinary member of the party, following the dissolution of the former executive structures from ward to state levels.
Speaking with journalists yesterday at the party’s state secretariat in Bauchi, the caretaker chairman, Alhaji Shehu Adaji, said the former chairman and members of the dissolved State Working Committee no longer possessed the constitutional authority to speak or act on behalf of the party.
Adaji explained that the dissolution followed deliberations by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) which was subsequently ratified by the National Executive Council (NEC).
According to him, the committee was mandated to administer the party, reconcile aggrieved members and harmonise its structures across the state pending the conduct of substantive congresses.
Earlier, Alhaji Auwal Isah, who addressed journalists separately, insisted that he remained the legitimate state chairman because he had occupied the position long before Governor Mohammed and his associates joined the party.
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According to him, the arrangement has now been undermined by what he described as attempts by the new entrants to take complete control of the party.
Auwal vowed that his faction would pursue their rights, including seeking legal redress if necessary.
At the time, the party’s secretary, Mohammed Nasir Yahaya, who addressed journalists alongside some executives, accused the former chairman of financial mismanagement, poor record-keeping, failure to operate an official party bank account and unconstitutional handling of party affairs.
Yahaya announced that an emergency meeting of the executives had installed Hon. Nasiru Nuru Marafa as interim chairman of the party in the state.
According to Yahaya, Auwal Isah allegedly altered the names of members of the State Executive Committee and introduced individuals he claimed were not original members of the party but loyalists of the state government and PDP who joined alongside the governor.
