The New Nigeria Peoples Occasion, NNPP, has accused its 2023 presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, of partaking in anti-party actions and betraying the boldness of the celebration’s founding members.
The celebration alleged that the previous Kano State governor’s conduct has triggered widespread defections to each the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP).
The celebration made the allegation in response to the current departure of two key members Rep. Abdulmumin Jibrin, who returned to the APC, and Ambassador Oluremi Oguntoyinbo, who defected to the PDP.
In an announcement issued on Tuesday, the NNPP Nationwide Secretary, Dr Ogini Olaposi, attributed the wave of defections to a management disaster allegedly instigated by Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiyya Motion.
“The NNPP confronted a sequence of litigations and nonetheless faces a management disaster when Kwankwaso and his motion tried to hijack the celebration’s management and buildings,” he mentioned.
Olaposi lamented that a number of strategic members in Kano had already decamped to the ruling APC as a result of scenario.
He additionally accused Kwankwaso and his followers of betraying Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, the celebration’s founder and Chairman of its Board of Trustees.
“The unlucky factor is that Kwankwaso and his followers betrayed the belief reposed in them by Dr Boniface Aniebonam, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the NNPP,” Olaposi added.
In line with him, the interior rift has discouraged loyal members and pushed others to hunt relevance elsewhere forward of the 2027 elections.
“With INEC but to resolve the NNPP management disaster regardless of the landmark judgments affirming the Dr Agbo Main-led Nationwide Working Committee, there’s a tendency that many extra members, who will not be positive of their destiny, will go away,” he mentioned.
The celebration, nonetheless, emphasised that it holds no unhealthy intention towards those that select to go away, noting that becoming a member of or leaving a political celebration is a matter of private selection.
“It’s the suitable of each Nigerian to decide on the celebration they want to belong to. The defectors didn’t be part of one other celebration underneath duress however out of their free will due to our inside management disaster,” the assertion learn.
Dr Olaposi reaffirmed that the NNPP is constructed on the ideas of honesty, integrity, and ideological dedication, urging members to stay calm whereas ongoing efforts to revive unity throughout the celebration proceed.
“It’s our hope that INEC mustn’t anticipate a compelling order of the courtroom to obey legitimate courtroom judgements,” he added.
