Yobe IPAC crisis deepens as sacked chairman, secretary reject impeachment

The tussle for power of the Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, successful Yobe State has taken a caller turn, aft the embattled Chairman, Umar Adamu Jajere, and Secretary-General, Mustapha Gado, openly faulted the determination to oust them.

In a associated connection made disposable to newsmen connected Saturday by the duo, they maintained that the reported impeachment has nary ineligible effect and that they proceed to aviator the affairs of the council.

Their absorption is coming astatine a clip erstwhile the umbrella assemblage for registered parties successful the authorities is already battling interior challenges, with governmental activities gradually gathering up towards the 2027 wide elections.

The purported impeachment violated respective provisions of the IPAC Code of Conduct (2019) and could not stand", they argued.

They said the gathering wherever the determination was taken failed to conscionable the required quorum.

According to them, neither the State Executive Council nor the State Assembly had up to fractional of its members present, arsenic demanded by Sections 8(ii) and 8(iv) of the Code.

Those who took portion successful the gathering and voted were not duly accredited. These persons progressive had nary written information from the authorities chairmen of their parties, a request nether Sections 4.2(a) and 15", they alleged.

The 2 officials ...