The Forum of State Chairmen of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has asked its presidential candidate in the last general election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, to resign or be suspended indefinitely over alleged involvement in “anti-party activities”.
In a statement by its Chairman and Leader, Sunday Oginni, the forum accused Kwankwaso of masterminding the party’s crisis across the country in order to hijack it from the original owners and founding members.
Oginni alleged that the former Kano State governor was only using the party to negotiate himself back into Nigeria’s political scene.
The forum leader said the NNPP chairmen discovered that Kwankwaso, in collaboration with his group, allegedly amended the constitution of the party to aid their alleged attempt to hijack the party’s structure.
The statement reads: “In the same vein, the recent unconstitutional and purported dissolution of seven states’ executives of Ekiti, Enugu, Niger, Kaduna Katsina, Rivers and Zamfara from state and local to the ward levels at the same time is unacceptable.
“It’s on record that neither Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso nor any of his cohorts at the National Working Committee (NWC) committed a dime to the building of structures of the party they are not ashamed to demolish within a twinkle of an eye. The empty threat of the NWC, coming in later days for the jugular of Imo and Oyo states, shall not see the light of the day.”
“Also, the display of lawlessness by the NWC in the Ogun State chapter of NNPP has led to protracted litigation that may reach the Supreme Court.
“The illegality of the arbitrary sacking of democratically elected officers of the party by Kwankwaso’s NWC, acting like a garrison commander, is an heinous crime against democracy and humanity.
“It’s on record that Senator Kwankwaso instructed the uploading of names that never participated in party primaries during the last governorship election.
“However, we pray that this unconstitutional action and insincerity will not cost NNPP the governorship victory secured in Kano State as this illegality is now being challenged at the tribunal.
“We use this forum to call on the founder of this great party, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, to rise up to the occasion by making sure that he revokes the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), having been breached by Kwankwaso, and bring back our party.
“We use this opportunity to appeal to Nigerians to be patient and prayerful for the emergence of a new Nigeria of our collective dreams.
