By David Lawani
The Kano State High Court has struck down the dissolution of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) state, local, and ward executive councils, declaring the National Working Committee’s (NWC) action null and void.
In an ex parte order issued on Tuesday, Justice Nasiru Saminu restrained the NNPP’s National Working Committee from taking any further action concerning the party’s leadership structure in Kano until the hearing and determination of a motion filed by the plaintiffs.
The suit, filed as No. Abdullahi Zubairu Imam and five others instituted K/06/2026 on behalf of the NNPP executive committees across the state’s 44 local government areas. The plaintiffs challenged the legality of their purported dissolution by the party’s NWC.
Justice Saminu’s interim injunction directs all parties to maintain the status quo as it existed on December 30, 2025—before the NWC issued the dissolution directive.
The court specifically ordered that the defendants, including the NWC and any agents or committees acting on its behalf, are restrained from appointing caretaker committees at the state, local, or ward levels in Kano pending the resolution of the motion.
“The Defendant/Respondent is restrained…from appointing Caretaker Committees for the State, Local Government, and Ward level Executives of Kano State or taking any further step regarding the subject matter of this suit,” the court order read.
The order also permits the plaintiffs to serve the process on the NNPP’s National Secretariat in Abuja, outside the court’s jurisdiction.
The NWC of the NNPP had dissolved the Kano executive councils following the suspension of Hon. Hashim Dungurawa as state party chairman. Abdullahi Abiya was subsequently appointed as acting chairman, a move now blocked by the court’s injunction.
