NNPP rejects Kwankwaso’s talk of “conditions” for him to return to APC
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
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“At last, we have been vindicated. All negotiations by any party with Kwankwaso should be done in 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.”
“The crisis began because, rather than leave peacefully, they began to plan to hijack the party. We can’t wait to see them at another party.
“Kwankwaso has no political party. His political value dipped after betraying the NNPP, which 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 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, NNPP scribe.
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Rabiu Kwankwaso floating “conditions” for him to defect from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) back to the All Progressives Congress (APC) he helped found are simply his personal ideas, not of the NNPP, the party’s National Secretary has clarified.
Kwankwaso, former Kano Governor and 2023 NNPP presidential candidate, declared on September 20 that he and his supporters are ready to rejoin the APC based on certain conditions, one of which is a guarantee that they will not be used to win elections and later abandoned, as happened in the past.
In reaction, NNPP scribe Ogini Olaposi has issued a statement clarifying that by the declaration, Kwankwaso has finally admitted that he and his movement are not part of the NNPP.
“At last, we have been vindicated. All negotiations by any party with Kwankwaso should be done in his individual capacity,” Olaposi stressed, per the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
“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 insisted that the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Kwankwasiya Movement and the NNPP ended after the 2023 vote.
“The crisis began because, rather than leave peacefully, they began to plan to hijack the party. We can’t wait to see them at another party.”
In Olaposi’s view, Kwankwaso no longer has a political platform, and the majority of his followers in Kano had joined the APC long before now.
“Kwankwaso has no political party. His political value dipped after betraying the NNPP, which 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 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 the delay by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in uploading the party’s new executive after a court-ordered convention that produced the executive led by Agbo Major.
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