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The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says some individuals instigated the expulsion of the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, AMILOADED reports.
The Osun NNPP passed a vote on confidence on Kwankwaso, saying the former governor of Kano State used his years of political experience to stabilise the party and brought it to limelight.
The Osun NNPP Chairman, Dr. Tosin Odeyemi, said this at a press conference in Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday.
Odeyemi said the NNPP members who instigated Kwankwaso’s expulsion were recently, based on allegations of anti-party activities during the 2023 general elections, investigated and sanctions in line with the party’s Constitution.
He added, “To our surprise, about ten of them, including our former National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Gilbert Major Agbo gathered in Lagos and claimed to have dissolved the properly constituted National Working Committee (NWC) of the Party, the height of which is their purported expulsion of Senator Kwankwaso from the party.
“It will interest you to know that the present NWC of our party was constituted and inaugurated in April 2022 for a period of four at a ceremony witnessed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja.
“We are not unaware that some external forces, scared of 2027 elections, are behind these shenanigans and their main target is His Excellency, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Ph,D, FNSE. We as a Party are aware of their engagements and their plans. We know their limitations according to the Statutes (NNPP Constitution, Electoral Act, INEC Guidelines, and the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as Amended).
“In view of this, as a law abiding organisation, the leadership of our party have decided to approach the court to put a stop to their evil machinations of disrupting our well laid down programmes for subsequent elections.
“We wish to reiterate that our NWC is intact, except the former National Publicity Secretary, who has been expelled by a properly constituted National Executive Committee (NEC) and NNPP, since the dissolution of the Board of Trustees (BOT) in 2022 publicly in the presence of INEC and the media, has not constituted a new Board. The BOT is not what one person can sit in one corner to constitute.
“Here in Osun State, we wish to pass vote of confidence on Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso who has used his years of political experience to stabilise our party and brought us to limelight.
“NNPP was at its point of death, the coming of Kwakwanso was the air that sustained the party and Osun is part of the old NNPP, he helped the party escaped the harmer of INEC as it would have been de-registered if we didn’t win any seat. His efforts saved us.
“We also pledge our loyalty to the National Working Committee of NNPP.”
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