Only Kwankwaso, Kwankwasiya Movement Planning To Defect To APC, Insists NNPP

THE National Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ogini Olaposi, has insisted that only its leader, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and his Kwankwasiya Movement were planning to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The clarification, in a statement on Monday, September 22, in Lagos, became necessary following the former Kano State governor and the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 generl elections statement on Saturday, September 20, that he and his supporters were ready to join the ruling APC.
However, Olaposi said by the declaration, Kwankwaso has finally admitted that he and his movement were not part of the NNPP, adding: “At last, we have been vindicated. All negotiations by any party with Kwankwaso should be done on his individual capacity.
“Our party will now rest from the Movement’s resistance after they were expelled for anti-party activities.
“The NNPP has nothing against the ruling party and if at any point ahead of the 2027 general elections we think we should enter into alliance with APC or any other, it will be decided by all members.
“For now, we are putting our house in order ahead of elections nationwide after the crisis and litigations that Kwankwaso and his followers brought to the NNPP.”
Olaposi stated that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Kwankwasiya Movement and NNPP ended after the 2023 presidential election, noting: “The crisis began because rather than leave peacefully, they began to plan to hijack the party.
“We can’t wait to see them in another party.”
The party’s scribe said Kwankwaso no longer has a political platform, as majority of his followers in Kano joined the APC long before now, adding: “Kwankwaso has no political party; his political value dipped after betraying the NNPP that gave him a free platform for his presidential ambition and when the strategic members of the movement joined the ruling party.
“Nigerians, who negotiate with Kwankwaso and his group, should know that it is on his right as a citizen, but not as a member of the NNPP.
“Any negotiation in the name of NNPP is null and void, because they remain expelled from our party.”
Olaposi lamented INEC’s delay in uploading the party’s new executive despite a court ordered convention that produced the Agbo Major-led executive.