Nigeria, Dec. 30 -- The ward executives of the New Nigeria People's Party (NNPP), in the Dawakin Tofa Local Government Area, Kano State, have announced the expulsion of the state's party chairman, Hashim Dungurawa, citing allegations of gross indiscipline.

The decision was announced in a resolution issued following the ward's executive meeting. This move comes just two weeks after Mr Dungurawa's re-election as the state's party chairman and worsens the crisis in the party, which only governs Kano, out of Nigeria's 36 states.

The resolution was released to journalists late Monday in Kano, hours after Mr Dungurawa described the rumoured defection of Governor Abba Yusuf as 'a betrayal' of the party.

The resolution bore the signatures of 2...