A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Alhaji Buba Galadima, has dismissed the suspension of the party’s presidential candidate in the last election, Rabiu Kwankwaso by a faction, describing it as a “Nollywood and Hollywood joke”.
Galadima, who stated this on Channels Television’s Politics Today yesterday, also insisted that NNPP is still intact.
A faction of the party had, earlier yesterday, declared Kwankwaso suspended, citing “material evidence” in public affirming the former Kano state governor was involved in “anti-party activities in various meetings”.
The group also claimed that Kwankwaso was also in political discussions with President Bola Tinubu, then candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC); his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar; and Labour Party (LP)’s Peter Obi. without authorisation from the party.
But Galadima, who dismissed these claims against Kwankwaso, said “When I saw it on social media, I thought it was like a Nollywood or Hollywood joke.”
He claimed that the leaders of the said group had been expelled from the NNPP.
“Now let me make a small correction, those that were expelled were Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam and Gabriel Agbor Major,” he maintained.
“All of them who were expelled were called to a disciplinary committee. They were drilled and they accepted their sins and it was on the basis of their acceptance that they were recommended to the Nation Working Committee for expulsion.”
Galadima also accused political adversaries of masterminding the internal wranglings within the party but insisted that the NNPP remains strong.
“A lot of people are interested in this party in the sense that the other parties felt that they could only survive if they destroyed this party.
“But unknown to them we are as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar,” he said.
