…Swears in new executive
The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) has suspended its presidential candidate in the February 2023 presidential elections, Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso and terminated the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between NNPP, Kwankwasia, The National Movement (TNM) and the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF).
The Board of Trustees of the party stated after a long meeting that ran through Monday night to Tuesday morning that the
Constitution of the party has been amended severally without following due process and procedure by a clique of individuals within the system.
The board in a communique released after the overnight meeting stated that the MoU document has been infringed upon and violated by
the National Working Committee (NWC) members.
The communique accused the NWC of unceremoniously dissolving about eight state chapters of the old NNPP.
The Board therefore sent letters of reinstatement to the suspended executive Chairmen.
The BoT Chairman, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam resigned and a new BoT Chairman, Dr. Chief Tope Aluko was elected with Engr. Babayo Muhammed Abdulahi as new BOT Secretary, while High Chief Tony Obioha was elected as BoT spokesperson.
The BOT members took strong exception to Buba Galadima’s parading of himself as BOT Secretary, saying that the this conduct is in violation of the composition of the members of the BOT in accordance with the party constitution.
The BOT declared NWC incompetent and dissolved it due to attrition and failure of its members to follow the constitution and due process in filling of the vacant positions.
The appointment of new national officers headed by Dr. Agbo Major as acting National Chairman and Comrade Ogini Olaposi as acting National Secretary with about 18 others were affirmed by the BOT.
The board also said that constitutionally, the nomenclature, the national leader is not in existence for a failed Presidential candidate.
It therefore moved that Engr. Rabiu Kwankwaso should no longer be referenced as National Leader.
It declared the purported suspension of the Founder as a flagrant gross violation of the NNPP constitution such that it is tantamount to recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the incompetent NWC.
It added that its Abuja office remains plot 511, Herbert Marcaulay Way, Suite A1 to A3, Willian’s Plaza, Zone 4, Wuse, Abuja.
BOT further declared that material evidence in the public sector affirmed that Senator Kwankwaso was involved in anti-party activities in various meetings, like political discussions with Mr. President, Atiku and Obi without authorization from the board, and therefore suspended him for six months, pending the outcome of investigation by the Disciplinary Committee.