The National Working Committee (NWC) of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has refuted the purported suspension of Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, the 2023 Presidential Candidate from the party.
Mr Ladipo Johnson, the NNPP National Auditor, stated this at a news conference on Wednesday the party’s National Headquarters in Abuja.
Johnson, a former spokesperson for Kwankwanso presidential Campaign Council, said that the suspension was null and void.
A faction of the party headed by a former Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Mr Boniface Aniebonan had on Tuesday suspended Kwankwaso for six months over alleged anti-party activities, after a parallel National Executive Committee (NEC) in Lagos.
It also appointed the former National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr Major Agbo as the acting National Chairman.
But, Johnson said that Aniebonam and Agbo were on Aug. 24 suspended for three months for engaging in unwholesome acts before they were later expelled from the party.
He added that the party NEC at its meeting on Tuesday in Abuja monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) took certain decisions including the election of new national officials, change of the party logo and expulsion of Aniebonam and Agbo.
“Is it not funny that all those people either suspended or expelled would gather somewhere and claim to have suspended Kwankwaso and also dissolve the NWC?
“The jokers also appointed a CTC made up of those people who have ceased to be members of the party by virtue of our constitution.