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Mallam Salihu Lukman, national vice chairman of the All Progressives Congress for the North-West, followed through on his promise to file a lawsuit against Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman, and Iyiola Omisore, national secretary, for allegedly violating the party’s constitution.

After giving Adamu and Omisore a one-week deadline to call an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council to discuss the problems in the party, Lukman announced the latest development.

Lukman issued a warning that failure to call the NEC meeting will lead him to seek a court injunction to enforce compliance with the APC constitution’s stipulations.

In the past year, there have been numerous instances of conflict between the lawmaker from Kaduna State and the national head of the APC.

The APC national vice chairman for the North West bemoaned that in addition to frequently criticizing Adamu of being a one-man show, Adamu had also reduced the members of the National Working Committee to serving as merely rubber stamps to endorse significant decisions he made alone.

However, the situation changed on Thursday when Adamu and Omisore received official notice of the court summons.

“They were officially served this afternoon. In fact, I can even say confidently that members of the NWC are equally aware that Lukman has matched his threat with action,” a source at the APC secretariat told our correspondent.

The plaintiff in the lawsuit brought by Lukman’s attorney, Mohammed Abdullahi of Lexhill City Attorneys, gave the party’s secretary 30 days to answer to the summons.

The 37 authorized centers for the state’s ongoing University Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been staffed by 422 members of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps in Kano State.

This was said by the state commandant, Mr. Adamu Salihu, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Kano.

He clarified that the cops were stationed at the testing locations to keep an eye on the exercise and to ensure that the specified locations were secure.

He claimed that the leadership sent two officers to each of the 37 centers spread throughout the state to ensure a smooth exercise.

“There will be three sessions of exams for three days and for each session we deployed two officers to monitor the exercise.’’

Salihu said the command had not received any negative report so far.

He claims that the exercise has gone off without a hitch so far; there have been no instances of examination fraud, no arrests, and the environment is favorable.

A NAN correspondent who visited some centers noticed that candidate registration began early and that various experiences were documented throughout the process.

Some of the problems were resolved right away, according to a supervisor at the center who asked to remain anonymous.

He said that the practice had gone smoothly up to this point.

According to NAN, 740 centers will serve the entire country’s 1.5 million candidates who will be taking the computer-based tests.