The Contemporary Nigeria Folks’s Birthday party (NNPP) has disowned a ragged Governor of Kano Insist and ex-presidential candidate of the birthday celebration, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, over his comment that he took Governor Abba Yusuf to about a Supreme Court docket judges in 2019.
The birthday celebration insisted that Kwankwaso turned into no longer a member of the NNPP in 2019 when the alleged incident inviting Supreme Court docket judges reportedly took place.
The clarification turned into made on the weekend by the nationwide leadership of the birthday celebration, which distanced itself from the allegations linked to Kwankwaso and told the Nigerian Bar Affiliation (NBA) to appropriate away get rid of the name of the NNPP from any petition submitted to the Inspector-Traditional of Police on the topic.
In an announcement signed by the National Secretary of the NNPP, Comrade Oginni Olaposi Sunday, the birthday celebration described experiences linking it to the controversy as deceptive and unsuitable.
“We are here to save the suggestions straight. Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso turned into no longer a member of the Contemporary Nigeria Folks’s Birthday party in 2019 when he allegedly dedicated the offence of taking Governor Abba Yusuf to request some Supreme Court docket judges,” Oginni acknowledged.
Per the commentary, Kwankwaso handiest joined the NNPP about a months sooner than the 2023 fashioned elections, alongside considerable political figures such as Buba Galadima, Prof. Alkali, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, Prof. Hanga and doubtlessly the newest Kano Insist Governor, Abba Yusuf.
The birthday celebration moreover debunked claims that Kwankwaso turned into a founding member of the NNPP.
“Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso turned into by no way one amongst the founding fathers of the NNPP. The dependable founding father of the birthday celebration is Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam,” the commentary wired.
The NNPP further accused Kwankwaso of making an strive to hijack the birthday celebration after becoming a member of it, alleging that he unilaterally modified the birthday celebration’s logo and colours to mediate his Kwankwasiyya circulate without the consent of the birthday celebration’s founder and the Board of Trustees.
“It’s sad that Senator Kwankwaso tried to remodel the intellectual property of the founding father of NNPP to his deepest employ,” the birthday celebration acknowledged.
The commentary recalled that a faction proper to Kwankwaso had challenged the legitimacy of a birthday celebration convention that produced Dr. Agbo Gilbert Most critical as National Chairman and Comrade Oginni Olaposi Sunday as National Secretary. It approved, on the other hand, that the suit turned into pushed aside by a Federal Capital Territory High Court docket sitting in Abuja.
Reiterating its stance, the NNPP acknowledged that Kwankwaso had since been expelled from the birthday celebration.
“We are hereby reiterating the choice of the National Working Committee that Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is not any longer a member of the NNPP. He turned into expelled shortly after the 2023 election for sinful misconduct,” Oginni acknowledged, adding that connected matters had been peaceful below investigation by the Financial and Financial Crimes Payment (EFCC), Abuja.
“Senator Kwankwaso has long been expelled from the NNPP and have to peaceful no longer be addressed because the National Chief of our astronomical birthday celebration,” the commentary declared.
The birthday celebration maintained that its first rate leadership structure stays Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam as Founder and Chairman, Board of Trustees; Dr. Agbo Gilbert Most critical as National Chairman; and Comrade Oginni Olaposi Sunday as National Secretary.
