The Board of Trustees (BOT)has validated the New Nigeria People’s Party(NNPP) decision to expel the party’s presidential candidate Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso. BOT has also approved the dissolution of the National Working committee (NWC),led by Abba Kawu Ali.
This was explained in a statement signed by the party’s national publicity secretary Alhaji Adbulsalam Abdulrasaq, during the end of the BO meeting held on 29th Friday at Rockview Hotel at Apapa in Lagos State .
The statement reads: “The Constitution of the NNPC 2022, remains the constitution of the party and no constitution amendment is approved until after the 2027 general elections”
“The dissolved Abba Kawu Ali-led National Working Committee of the party which was constituted without due process and the laid down provisions of the party’s constitution is dissolved, and INEC is to be notified immediately.
It continues, “The expulsion of Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from the (NNPP) is confirmed and ratified.”
“The alleged expulsions of the Founder and former chairman of the BoT and Dr Gilbert Major Agbo, former publicity secretary, and the purported dissolution of the nine (9) state and local government executive committees without a fair hearing by the illegal but now dissolved Abba Kawu Ali-led National Working Committee of the party which was carried out without due process and contrary to the party’s constitution is nullified and set aside.”
“The resignation of Dr Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam as the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party during the last Board meeting of 29th August 2023 is accepted and ratified. Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam remains the Founder and life member of the Board of Trustees.”
“The elections of Dr. Temitope Aluko as the chairman of the Board of Trustees and Engr. Babayo Mohammed Abdullahi as the secretary to the Board of Trustees on 29th August 2023 was accepted and ratified. More so, the elections of Dr. Gilbert Major Agbo as the national chairman, Comrade Olaposi Oginni as the national secretary, Chief Felix Chukwura as the deputy national chairman (South), Alhaji Babayo Liman as the deputy national chairman (North), Mr Abdulrazaq Abdulsalam as the national publicity secretary and Peter Ogah, Esq. as the national legal adviser of the party, their oaths of office having been administered accordingly, were accepted and ratified. The List of the other members of the Board of Trustees and the National Working Committee will be published subsequently.”
The board of trustees informs the public to disregard the expressions of the Kwankwasiya group led by the party’s presidential Candidate, Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso over the state of affairs of the party and the judgment of the Kano State governorship election petitions tribunal.
The Board of Trustees Stated that, “The groups are mere interest groups who used the party’s platform for the 2023 general elections, but their alliance ended with the elections, and as such the groups have no authorization to speak or act for the party”.
BOT added that, “the judgment of the Kano State governorship election petitions tribunal which sacked the party’s candidate, Governor Abba Yusuf on Wednesday, 20th of September, 2023 is to be carefully studied with the view of approaching the appellate court for necessary redress.”
Since the 2023 General elections, NNPC has been suffering lots of crises hence the party’s and BOT’s decisions to expel their presidential Candidate Sen. Rabiu Kwakwanso.