A High Court in Kano yesterday fixed May 27 to hear three applications on the suspension of the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje.

The court, presided over by Justice Usman Na’abba, chose the date after listening to counsel to both parties before to enable them serve the processes and to hear the three applications.

The applications are preliminary objection, joinder application, and challenge of the jurisdiction of the court to entertain and hear the matter.

The applicants – Haladu Gwanjo and Laminu Sani Barguma through their counsel, Ibrahim Abdullahi Sa’ad – filed a motion ex parte with a 13-paragraph affidavit dated April 16 sworn to by the second applicant.

They are praying the court to determine an order of interim injunction on Ganduje’s suspension.

The court had, on April 17, granted an order directing the parties to maintain the status quo as of April 15, on the suspension of the fourth respondent from the first respondent by the Ganduje Ward executive committee of the APC.

It also granted the order restraining the respondents, whether by themselves, their servants, agents, or privies from taking any step contrary to the decision of the executive committee of Ganduje Ward which suspended Ganduje from his party, pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice.

At the resumed hearing yesterday, counsel to the applicant, Ibrahim Sa’ad, said they received the counter-affidavit in court that morning.

He asked for another date to enable them respond to the application.

Counsel to the first, second, and third respondents did not object to the request.