Marafa remains suspended - Zamfara APC

The Zamfara State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that a factional leader of the party in the state, Senator Kabiru Marafa, remains suspended, insisting that the party suspended him since 2019.

The State APC Chairman, Alhaji Lawal Liman, stated this on Monday while reacting to the recent comments credited to Senator Marafa on the National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the party.

Marafa had asked the Buni-led committee to organise an elective national convention by December 2020, or get sacked.

But Liman said, “As far as we are concerned in the APC in Zamfara, Senator Marafa remains suspended because, since 2019, we suspended him in accordance with the party’s constitution and our decision has been forwarded to the APC national headquarters in Abuja.

“We are calling on the national caretaker committee of the party to ratify his suspension. Therefore, members of the public should not regard him as a member of the APC.

“We don’t consider Marafa as our member because he is used by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to disrupt peace and stability in the party.

“Disobeying the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) is enough reason to know that Marafa is not wishing the APC well,” he added.

“We are calling on the National caretaker committee to take appropriate action against him. Therefore he should be treated as opposition,” the party said.

The Publicity Secretary of Marafa’s faction, Alhaji Bello Bakyasuwa could not be reached for comment as at the time this story was filed last night.