Agbo Major, factional national chairman of the New Nigeria
Peoples Party (NNPP), says Rabiu Kwankwaso and his supporters ceased to be
members of the party after the breakdown of their alliance in 2022.
In a statement on Tuesday, the NNPP faction led by Kwankwaso
had announced that its national executive council (NEC) meeting will be held on
August 28.
Speaking in an interview with News Central TV on Friday,
Major insisted that there are no factions within the NNPP.
“The NNPP has no faction anywhere,” he said.
“The NNPP has a NWC that is led by myself, and then the
board of trustees that is led by Dr Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, who is also
the founder of the party. By implication, we have no faction anywhere.”
He dismissed reports that another group is planning to hold
a national executive committee meeting using the NNPP’s name.
“Of course, I read it also on the papers that the group
somewhere is planning a national executive committee using the name of our
party for 28th or something like that and at that meeting they are likely to
take a decision on what to do,” he said.
“First, let it be placed on record here, and you media
people must also help Nigerians to understand the exact state of affairs within
the party.
“The true position is that the people that you are referring
to are members of the Kwankwasiya group led by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso
from Kano state. We have repeatedly mentioned this.”
Major said Kwankwaso and his loyalists left the NNPP after
the political alliance that brought them together collapsed.
“These people ceased to be members of our party since August
2023, when the marriage that brought us together in 2022 was dissolved by those
who consummated the marriage, including myself and Dr Boniface Aniebonam, the
founder of the party, and since then they’ve never been part of us,” he added.
“Of course, they keep deceiving innocent Nigerians on the
streets that they are members of the party, but inside the party we know quite
clearly that these people are no longer members of our party.”
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