The crisis rocking the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) took a new dimension as some aggrieved state chairmen of the party condemned the alleged subterranean moves by the party’s former Presidential candidate, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, to hijack the party’s machinery from its founder, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam.
Briefing journalists in Ado-Ekiti, Olayinka Dada, Ekiti State chairman of the party, accused the members of NWC of making themselves free tools in the hands of Kwakwanso to sabotage the collective interest of the party .
He hinted that the NNPP leaders from 10 states have passed a vote of no-confidence against the members of the Abba Kawu-led National Working Committee (NWC) for allegedly working in cahoots with Kwankwaso to carry out the sinister plan.
He expressed dismay over the desperation of Dr. Kwankwaso in destroying the political party, which once gave him and his foot-soldiers fortress in the last polls declaring that they have rejected the NWC leadership because they had failed in managing the party’s affairs well.
Dada, who doubles as the spokesman, Forum of NNDP State Chairmen, said the party became suspicious when Kwankwaso hurriedly held secret meeting with the All Progressives Congress (APC) President and winner of the poll, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in France, days after the poll, even when other serious political parties were collating evidence of electoral malfeasance to challenge the results as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) .
Part of Kwakwanso’s sins, as alleged, was his deliberate action to starve the party of funds during the last presidential poll.
According to him, Kwankwaso’s singular action, coupled with other inequities noticed before, during and after the Presidential poll, allegedly confirmed that he (Kwankwaso) sold out .
The state chairmen include those of Ekiti, Enugu, Rivers, Zamfara, Kastina, Kaduna, Niger, among others.
