BREAKING: NNPP suspends Kwankwaso, others

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Board of Trustees (BoT) has taken the decision to suspend Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who had been the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 election. This suspension arises from accusations of engaging in activities that run counter to the party’s interests.

Furthermore, the BoT has extended this suspension to encompass the members of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).

In conjunction with these measures, the BoT has instituted a fresh lineup of national executives, led by Dr. Agbo Major as the Acting National Chairman and Mr. Ogini Olaposi as the Acting National Secretary.

Addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting in Lagos on Tuesday, Secretary of the BoT, Babayo Muhammed Abdulahi accused Kwankwaso of hobnobbing with President Bola Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi, without the board’s authorisation.

Abdullahi announced that Kwankwaso had been stripped of the NNPP national leader status by the board

Abdulahi said: “The purported suspension of the founder is a flagrant gross violation of the NNPP constitution such that it is tantamount to recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the incompetent NWC.

“The BoT decided that material evidence in the public sector affirmed that Kwankwaso was involved in anti-party activities in various meetings, suggest political discussions with the President, Atiku and Obi without authorisation from the board.

“This has earned him six months suspension pending the outcome of investigation by the Disciplinary Committee.

“The BOT insisted that the avoidable violation of MoU between NNPP on the one part and Kwankwasiyya, TNM and NAGAFF on the other has no other choice than to withdraw from the partnership.

“It is therefore to state clearly that the MoU have been rendered void,” he said.