…As NNPP Lagos Chairman Prioritizes Securing Lagosians’ Mandate
The founder and Chairman, Board of Trustees of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, has advised the Presidential flag bearer of the party in 2023 general elections, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, to follow the path of honour by admitting his mistakes and say sorry.
Dr. Aniebonam who was speaking at the inauguration of the Lagos chapter of NNPP executives on Friday at NAGAFF Village, Apapa, Lagos, stated that the party does not begrudge Kwankwaso but can only advise him to toe a more civilized path in all his political activities.
Alluding to his purported changing of the party’s logo and flag, the founder said emphatically that Kwankwaso has never seen nor touched the NNPP certificate even as Aniebonam added that Kwankwaso had admitted that there has never been any kind of bargain with him whatsoever.
Calling Kwankwaso a friend, the NNPP founder maintained that he has no issues against him even as he recognized his contributions to the party.
His words:”I and Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso are friends and we have no basic issues against each other, but I am the founder of the NNPP, though one cannot wish away the contributions of Dr. Kwakwanso to the party. We can only advise that he toes a more civilised path in all his political activities. It is confusing that someone like Dr. Kwakwanso can go through this process of political self destruction that he is going through now”.
Aniebonam who reaffirmed the expulsion of Kwankwaso and Elder Buba Galadima from the party said that “what is binding between the NNPP and the Kwankwansiya is the Memorandum of Understanding which the Abia State High Court judgement had quashed”.
The BoT Chairman pointed out that NNPP did not recognize or have agreement with Kwankwaso and Galadima as natural persons but with the Kwankwansiya Movement which had been quashed by the Abia State High Court ruling.
He was elated that NNPP has moved up in its rating nationally being the number three party after APC and PDP.
Dispelling rumours of getting financial supports from some quarters, Aniebonam averred that NNPP had a solid foundation in the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) which is from the gateway of the nation’s economy, the maritime sector.
Congratulating the newly inaugurated executive members of the party in Lagos State, the founder charged them to put in their best and ensure peace within themselves and with other political parties.
In her speech after being sworn in, the new state Chairman, Princess Olabisi Teniola Adebowale, said that her priority is to secure the political mandate of Lagosians administratively and tap into the potentials of the human and natural resources of the state for the common good of the citizens.
Having served in the capacity of woman leader of the party in Lagos, she promised to deploy her wealth of experience to bear on the current executives which she heads, adding that she would work assiduously to get things rightly done and always consult with party stakeholders for critical decision-making.
The chairman described NNPP as the only credible viable political platform readily available for aspiring leaders to contest for elective positions.
She disclosed that the party will soon embark on aggressive and massive membership mobilization so that more Lagosians can register as members of the party.
In her words: “As the 2027 general elections gradually draw close, we present to Lagosians the NNPP party as the only credible and viable political platform available for aspiring leaders to contest for elective positions. Our party ideology stems from justice, equity and fairness for all Nigerians.
Plans are on to hit the ground running for grass-root membership mobilisation so as to register people in our party in Lagos on a mass scale. The transparent and accountability nature of our party inspire confidence with impetus for Lagosians to join”.
Speaking before the swearing in of the state executive committee, the National Secretary of the party, Hon. Olaposi Sunday Ogini praised the founder, Dr. Aniebonam for nurturing NNPP to its present state where it has become a force to reckon with. He advised the new Lagos Executive of the party to keep the flag of the party flying in the state.
The National Vice Chairman, South West, Hon. Wale Alabi, extolled the founder’s virtues and charged the new state executive members to make the party proud in the state.
The party’s national legal adviser, Mrs. Dorothy Ilegbune, administered the swearing in of the new state executive members which include:
1. Princess Adebowale Olabisi Teniola Anike – Chairman
2. Engr. Fabian Okafor – Vice Chairman I
3. Ignatious Nwachukwu – Vice Chairman II
4. Dr. Goodluck Onuniji – Vice Chairman III
5. Chief Bade Taylor Ikoyi LCDA – Deputy Chairman
6. Dr. Clement Iwegbuna – Secretary
7. Madam Bolanle Odusami.
Ibeju Local Govt. – Deputy Secretary
8. Adeleye Conde Badagry LG – Treasurer
9. Madam Adaez Njoku (Alimosho LG) – Financial Secretary
10. Gabriel Morgan – Deputy Financial Secretary
11. Adebayo Siyanabade Adebowale.
Lagos Island Central LG. – Organzing Secretary
12. Madam Kuburat Olawunmi Agbaje.
Ikr West LG – Deputy Organizing Secretary
13. Dame Ruth Sunday Apapa LG. – Publicity Secretary
14. Nnorom Obinna Anselm – Deputy Pulicity Secretary
15. Professor Adebisi Adekunle Aina Esq. – Legal Adviser
16. Barrister Abdulkareem Ridwan Oluwanisola Esq. – Deputy Legal Adviser
17. Hon. Sugar Ugba Amuwo Odofin Lg. – Welfare Secretary
18. Madam Gbemi Talabi Epe Lg. – Deputy Welfare Secretary
19. Madam Modupeola Saka-Olopa
Etiosa LG. – State Women Leader
20. Madam Anuoluwa Eniola Oduwole.
Lagos Island South LG. – Deputy Women Leader
21. Madam Rachael Moturayo Oluwumi – Assistant Women Leader
22. Madam Yetunde Owokade – Assistant Women Leader II
23. Madam Grace Fatoye – South Western Women Leader
24. Olanrewaju Balogun – Auditor
25. Engr. Joseph Bankole Ogun.
Kosofe LG. – South West Youth Leader
26. Agbaje Wasiu – Lagos Youth Leader
27. Emeka Nwankwo Philip – Deputy Youth Leader, Lagos
28. Ms. Aliu Fadekemi Abosede.
Alimosho LG. – Deputy Youth Leader
29. Olarewanju Atitebi – Assistant Youth Leader II
30. Mr. Wale Folami – Assistant Youth Leader III
31. Christopher Okafor Ikorodu North LG. – Leader of Persons Living with disabilities
32. Olajide Olamide Badagry LG. – Deputy Leader of Persons living with Disabilities
33. Mr. Femi Saliu – Officer Liaison with Coorporate Bodies, Associations, Groups and Unions
34. Madam Oyinade Ogun – Deputy Officer Liaison with Corporate Bodies, Associations, Groups and Unions
35. Madam Olusola Adeogun – Ex-Officio I
36. Madam Busola Fairley – Ex-Officio II
37. Mr. Tajudeen Oduwole – Ex-Officio III
38. Mr. Seun Coker –Maybin Street, Apapa, Lagos Ex-Officio IV