The National Chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Dr Agbo Major Gilbert says Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the party's 2023 presidential candidate does not have a say in our great party any longer ahead of 2027.
Dr Agbo was reacting to Kwankwaso's speech at a meeting of his kwankwasiyia group, where he announced that the NNPP is open to alliances in 2027.
Recall that the controversy and tussle over the NNPP leadership has continued to linger with party, writing to INEC to be decisive on the matter of effecting changes in their old records
While Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya movement continues to claim ownership of the party, Dr Agbo who is the National chairman of the party insisted that the Memorandum of Understanding with the movement ended after the 2023 general elections and that Kwankwaso and his group has been expelled for anti party activities.
Dr Agbo said that the National Executive Council (NEC) that the Kwankwasiya Movement held in Abuja on Thursday in the name of NNPP will not change the decision of the party and the judgements of Abia and federal capital territory high courts
"Aside from the obvious betrayal of trust, we regret that Kwankwaso have continue to use the NNPP name to make transactional negotiations or comments that may decieve unsuspecting Nigerians," Dr Agbo said in a statement on Friday in Lagos
He said that the NNPP is still awaiting INEC's reply to the party on uploading the new leadership of the party that emanates from a court ordered convention.
"Any Nigerian entering into any alliance with Kwankwaso and his kwankwasiya group on the basis of the NNPP will be doing so at their own risks.
"Our party is open to every Nigerian and shall provide equal opportunities for aspirants to undergo mandatory primaries.
"We shall not allow betrayals our ticket again as we did with Kwankwaso in 2023.
" NNPP is not closed to alliance with sister political parties if there is need but it must not be for the purposes of fighting a personal vendetta .
It is our hope that INEC as a Federal Institution should understand the essence of rule of law and order in a civil society; Dr Agbo added.
