With the expulsion of Chief David Sabo Kente, a previous candidate for governor of Taraba State, the disputes within the APC have once more assumed a new dimension.
Additionally, the state APC demanded that Jimkuta David, the senator-elect for Taraba south, be promptly expelled from the party by the NEC.
Kente was charged with anti-party activities. Kente was a former member of the Northeast Development Commission (NEDC) and the former chairman of the board of trustees of the Northeast Development Education Empowerment Fund.
In a news release distributed to journalists in Jalingo, the state capital, the party’s state chairman, Barrister Ibrahim El-Sudi, stated: “for the avoidance of doubt, Chief David Sabo Kente stands expelled from the APC.”
He commanded Kante to stop “parading himself as a member of the party going forward” immediately.
You may recall that, at some point in July 2022, the executive members of the APC Kente Ward of the Wukari Local Government Area wrote to the Chairman of the APC Wukari LGA calling for the expulsion of Chief David Sabo Kente due to a number of allegations and offenses against the party as outlined in the party’s constitution 2022, as amended.
According to El-Sudi, Kente “refused to honor their invitations and abused them instead” despite numerous requests from the APC Wukari local government council for him to defend himself against the accusations made against him.
“Having investigated and confirmed that all constitutional procedures of a fair hearing and disciplinary steps have been satisfactorily followed by both the Ward and Local Government level of the party in Kente and Wukari Local Government, the only option left for the party is to expel him,” he stated.
He said that the State Working Committee “exercised its powers under Article 13.9 iv of the party’s constitution to ratify the decision of the APC Wukari Local Government Area.”
