The three-man panel, on Wednesday, ordered the withdrawal of certificate of return which INEC presented to Yusuf, and directed a certificate of return to be issued to Gawuna.
The internal crisis rocking New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) is far from over with expulsions and counter expulsion of party executives stoking the fire.
The best ways out of this quagmire include: the Supreme Court of Nigeria should be just and seen to be just; the man at Aso Rock should resist the temptation to build an ethnic cabal of inner circle power wielders; the opposition, as long as they do not threaten national security, should not be muzzled or cajoled; all the political gladiators must in their own interest avoid tempting our men and women on horseback into seeing themselves as our saviours; whoever loses at the Supreme Court should restrategize for 2027.
In about a month after his inauguration, he championed the move to prevent the encroachment into another Cross River State territory by Cameroon with a motion he presented on the floor of the House on behalf of the Cross River caucus. The joint motion presented by Abang led to the constitution of an adhoc committee by the House to stop the attempt to cede Danare and Biajua communities in Boki Local Government Area (LGA) of Cross River State through Pillar 113A to the Republic of Cameroon.