The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has declared that their national leader and presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is not suspended.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday at the national headquarters of the party, the acting national chairman of the party, Malam Kawu Ali, said they are the authentic leaders of the party, adding that Kwankwaso is not suspended.
“We don’t have a faction in the NNPP. Those parading themselves are jockers. Kwankwaso remains a member of the party and is not suspended,” Ali said.
“On the 5th of August 2023, we wrote INEC informing the body of our scheduled NEC meeting on August 29, 2023 in line with the Electoral Act which says you must give at least 21 days notice to INEC for a meeting of such nature, where election into party officers are concerned.
“It is also the practice that in every correspondence between a political party and INEC, only the National Chairman and the National Secretary can sign such correspondence. As stated in our letter to INEC the NNPP had its NEC meeting yesterday, Tuesday, AUGUST 29, 2023.
“In attendance were all members of the NWC, (except the now expelled National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Gilbert Major Agbo), all the 37 State Chairmen, our Governor, Senators and House of Representatives and every other person expected to be there.
“Is it not funny that all those people either suspended or expelled would gather somewhere and claim to have suspended His Excellency, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Ph. D. FNSE, and also dissolve the NWC?
“The jokers also appointed a CTC made up of those people who have ceased to be members of the party by virtue of our Constitution. Was INEC at the meeting? Did they write INEC? Who and who signed the letter? Is it not laughable that Major Agbo, who announced the suspension of the former chairmen, the expulsion of two of them, and the dissolution of some of the states is now purportedly “heading” their caretaker committee?
“It is just unfortunate that some people have reduced politics and party administration to a huge joke. The news that one person will sit somewhere and arrogate certain powers to himself is not permissible in a democracy.
“We are using this medium to assure our supporters all over the country that there is no substance in the story. His Excellency, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso remains the face of the party, has not been suspended, and the NWC under Malam Abba Kawu Ali remains intact,” the party said.
