Embattled House of Representative member, Abdulmumini Jibril Kofa, has been expelled by the Bebeji Local Government chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kano State, for alleged anti-party activities.
In a press conference held yesterday in Kano, the chairman of the Party in Bebeji Local Government Area, Alhaji Sani Kanti Garka, said Jibril was expelled from the party over a four-count charge.
He said:"Kofa was accused of creating divisions in the Party at the local government, forming a parallel APC leadership in Bebeji and 14 wards, sabotaging the Ganduje-led government and disloyalty to APC national leadership by sabotaging the Buhari-led administration."
He stated that the expulsion of the lawmaker became necessary following his alleged inability to defend himself before a 5-man committee set up by the party to investigate the allegations.
According to Garka, "The 5-man committee led by Alhaji Musa Namadi contacted the expelled lawmaker twice on the 11th and 13th of April to hear his own version but he failed to defend himself. He listened to the committee on the 11th of April but refused to listen to it on the 13th.
"As a result of that, the committee filed its reports and submitted same to the party on the 15th of June for further action.
"After it has gone through the report, the party was left with no option than to expel Kofa because it will not condone such attitude from any of its members. All party members must abide by its rules and regulations at all levels," he said.
Representative Jibril was given 180 legislative days suspension by the House of Representative for raising the allegation of budget padding against the House leadership. Because the House seats three days in a week, it means that Jibrin’s suspension would last more than a year.
Meanwhile, Rep. Jibril has declared that his expulsion came from a dubious character and known fraudster, who was neither the chairman of APC at the local government level nor a part of the party executive at the state level.
He said: "This is yet another round of character assassination from career political antagonizers who are perpetually threatened by our advocacy for transparency in public service and political leadership.
"Everybody knows that I honoured the invitation of the EFCC in a bid to shed light on the cases of corruption perpetrated by some principal officers of the House of Representatives, despite dissuasions by these saboteurs of my party's change agenda and stand against corruption.
"The initiators of the false claim of my expulsion from APC are hired hacks engaged by some politicians in Abuja, in continuation of their futile bids to frustrate my anti-corruption campaigns," he said.
