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  • 300 PDP, NNPP members dump parties, join APC in Kaduna

    300 PDP, NNPP members dump parties, join APC in Kaduna

    Ahead of the 2027 general elections, over 300 members of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kawo Ward, Kaduna North Local Government Area, have defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Receiving the new members, a Permanent Member of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr. Jamilu Haruna, described the mass defection as a clear endorsement of Governor Uba Sani’s performance.

    According to Dr. Haruna, who facilitated the reception ceremony, Governor Sani has, within two years in office, delivered impactful governance—ranging from infrastructural development to agricultural reform and rural transformation.

    “This defection is not surprising. Even members of the opposition acknowledge Governor Uba Sani’s giant strides in security, education, food security, and citizens’ welfare,” he said.

    “These achievements have set him apart from his peers and strengthened his relationship with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This puts Kaduna in a strategic position to benefit further from the Federal Government.”

    He assured the defectors of their full integration into the APC and thanked the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Sani Liman Kila, for his support in organizing the event.

    Also speaking at the event, the APC Chairman of Kaduna North Local Government, Alhaji Suleiman Wada Usman, welcomed the decampees on behalf of Governor Uba Sani.

    He commended them “for embracing the truth and joining the party that is genuinely committed to Kaduna State’s development.”

    “You will be treated fairly and equally in our party. No one will be considered a second-class member,” he assured.

    Leader of the decampees, Professor Usman Muhammad—a former PDP senatorial aspirant for Kaduna Central—said he led 225 members from the PDP because they believe in Governor Sani’s inclusive style of governance. He criticized the PDP for sidelining experienced members like himself despite their qualifications and service.

    Professor Muhammad, a political scientist and expert in international relations, expressed hope that the APC would value their contributions and called on the governor to deliver more developmental projects to Kawo.

    Prominent among the defectors were:

    Barr. Aliyu Suleiman, former PDP State Legal Adviser aspirant

    Alhaji Hamza Mati Salihu, Chairman, PDP Kawo Ward

    Hon. Idris Badamasi Shuaibu, former PDP House of Assembly aspirant

    Tasiu Aliyu, PDP Youth Leader, Kawo Ward

    Comrade Aminu Tanko Musa, Chairman, NNPP Kawo Ward

  • Reject ‘presidential coup’ against Fubara, NNPP urges National Assembly

    Reject ‘presidential coup’ against Fubara, NNPP urges National Assembly

    ABUJA- THE National Working Committee, NWC of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has described as an absurd political decision and a very dangerous precedent, the six-month suspension that was slammed on Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State by President Bola Tinubu.

    The NNPP, while condemning the action of President Tinubu in very strong terms, said that having reviewed the political situation in Rivers State, it came to a conclusion that it had clearly not degenerated to the level of warranting a State of Emergency, adding that except for the inherent political interest in the State, a more reasonable solution could have been applied rather than emergency rule.

    The NNPP called on President Tinubu to immediately reverse its decision and also called on members of the National Assembly to reject what it described as tantamount to a “presidential coup against a constitutionally elected government of the people in Rivers State.”

    A statement on Wednesday by the National Publicity Secretary Ladipo Johnson read, “NNPP declared that the action of the president was not only unconstitutional but also “an absurd political decision and a very dangerous precedent.”

    “The statement reviewed the political situation in Rivers State, noting that it had clearly not degenerated to the level warranting a State of Emergency, adding that except for the inherent political interest in the State, a more reasonable solution could have been applied rather than emergency rule.

    “Of course, the presidential fiat invoking Section 305 of the 1999 Constitution is arbitrary in the circumstances, to say the least, particularly on the conditions precedent and implications for democracy and development of the country,” the statement said.

    “It is clearly a dangerous precedent which can only be interpreted as an absurd political manipulation on the part of the Federal Government.

    “Why the rush to proclaim a State of Emergency without the conditions precedent as required by law? Doesn’t the president’s action vitiate the rule of law he talked about in his speech? Hasn’t he, by this rash action shown us that he does not fully understand the long-term implications and have the requisite skills required to rule a complex country like Nigeria? Or is it about his Party’s much-touted political interest in Rivers State ahead 2027?

    “These are questions germane to this unfortunate decision which of course sends frightening signals both locally and internationally regarding the rule of law and overall state of things in our union”.

    The statement was unequivocal that President Bola Tinubu was ill-advised, saying that he should have acted as a father for the parties involved in the Rivers State quagmire instead of being seen as one-sided and vindictive.

    “Yes, this rational deduction could be gleaned even from the sequence of his speech which gives away Emergency Rule proclamation as a political orchestration towards a political end.

    “This sort of action was what the NNPP had warned Nigerians and the people of Kano against, which it saw being orchestrated by some evil forces during the Emirate crisis. But for the maturity of the Governor and the good people of Kano State who avoided being ‘tricked’ into taking their resistance onto the streets, the same scenario might have played out with an unjustifiable declaration of a State of Emergency in Kano State.

    “The NNPP, however, reckoned with the implication of the declaration of the State of Emergency for the economy, warning that it was a decision capable of triggering restlessness in the Niger Delta with disastrous effects on the national economy.

    “Now the challenge is how to deal with a possible implosion in the Niger Delta over this matter. Are we seeing signs of this as per the incidents in the State in the last few days and how this could affect oil production as the nation’s economic mainstay?

    “Calling on the Presidency to immediately reverse its decision, the Party also called on members of the National Assembly to reject what is tantamount to a “presidential coup against a constitutionally elected government of the people in Rivers State.

    “In conclusion, the Party called on Nigerians to be vigilant to any measures or actions by the government and the individuals within it that could jeopardize the nation’s democracy which, it said, was hard-earned and must be protected against impunity and ill-advised decisions and policies.”

  • NNPP says reported suspension of Sen. Sumaila null and void

    NNPP says reported suspension of Sen. Sumaila null and void

    The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has described the purported suspension of Sen. Kawu Sumaila  (NNPP -Kano) and three other federal lawmakers as null and void.

    The Kano State chapter of the NNPP on Monday announced the suspension of Sumaila, the senator representing Kano South District and three other members of the House of Representatives.

    Sumaila was suspended alongside three federal lawmakers including Rep. Ali Gini, Rep. Sani Rogo and Rep. Kabiru  Rurum.

    The chairman of the party in Kano state, Alhaji  Hashimu Dungurawa, announced the suspension at a news conference.

    Dungurawa said they were suspended for alleged anti-party activities.

    In a swift reaction on Tuesday, the National Publicity Secretary of the NNPP, Dr Oginni Olaposi, stated that the purported suspension was aimed at disparaging the bonafide NNPP.

    Olaposi stated that the National Working Committee of the party was not informed of the so-called anti-party activities by the lawmakers.

    According to him, those who purportedly suspended the lawmakers are part of the Kwankwasia Movement whose 2023 presidential election Memorandum of Understanding with the NNPP  had ended.

    “We do not want Nigerians to be  misled by a group that does not believe in the rule of Law and public order.”

    According to him, in the interest of public order and peace of society, the NNPP again, wishes to clarify that the Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso-led Kwankwasiya Movement lacks the locus to act or speak on behalf of the party.

    The memorandum of understanding between NNPP and the Kwankwasiya Movement has long been terminated after the 2023 general elections.

    “It is on record that the MoU between NNPP and Kwankwasiya movement was only with the assents of   Kwankwaso and Elder Buba Galadima as representatives of their groups,  the Kwankwasiya movement and The National Movement (TNM).

    “Kwankwaso, who became the presidential candidate of the party in 2023 and Galadima represented the groups respectively,  hence their signatures on the  MoU of  2022 with the NNPP.

    “It is also a fact that the Abia State High Court on Nov. 1, 2024,  terminated the MoU and directed   INEC to handover the administration and leadership of NNPP to Dr Boniface Aniebonam, the party’s  Board of Trustees Chairman and  Founder.

    “The NNPP, therefore, appeals to the general public, most especially members and people of  Kano State to disregard whatever the groups, masquerading as NNPP members are saying.

    “Their pronouncement is false and misleading. We, hereby dissociate the NNPP  from reckless and unguided statements capable of causing public unrest  in Kano state.”

    Olaposi urged the Department of State Security Services to invite those creating unrest for questioning. (NAN).

  • NNPP Suspends Kano Senator, Three Lawmakers Over Alleged Anti-Party Activities

    NNPP Suspends Kano Senator, Three Lawmakers Over Alleged Anti-Party Activities

    The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has taken disciplinary action against Senator Abdulrahman Kawu Sumaila, who represents Kano South Senatorial District, along with three members of the House of Representatives from Kano State.

    The party announced their indefinite suspension on Monday, citing allegations of anti-party activities.

    The suspended lawmakers include Abdullahi Sani Rogo of Rogo Federal Constituency, Abdullahi Rurum representing Rano/Kibiya Federal Constituency, and Ali Maadakin Gini from Dala Federal Constituency.

    Their suspension follows recent remarks by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, who suggested that a senator and several NNPP members were on the verge of defecting to the APC.

    During a press conference, Kano State NNPP Chairman, Hashimu Dungurawa, justified the decision, accusing the lawmakers of “gross misconduct.”

    He criticized them for working against the party’s interests despite having been granted NNPP tickets after leaving the APC.

    However, the suspension has sparked division within the party. Senator Mas’ud El-Jibril Doguwa, who leads a faction of the NNPP in Kano, dismissed the action as meaningless, arguing that Dungurawa lacked the authority to impose such sanctions.

    He maintained that the affected lawmakers remain legitimate NNPP members, aligned with the faction recognized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

  • NNPP Crisis: Kwankwaso’s group rejects emergence of Agbo Major as Chairman

    NNPP Crisis: Kwankwaso’s group rejects emergence of Agbo Major as Chairman

    ABUJA- THE National Working Committee, NWC of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP has rejected the convention that led to Dr. Agbo Major’s emergence as the party’s new National Chairman, describing him as a product of a beer parlour meeting.

    According to NNPP, the convention was illegitimate and that Dr Ajuji Ahmed remains the only recognised National Chairman of the party.

    Addressing Journalists yesterday the party’s National Headquarters, Abuja, the NNPP National Chairman, Dr. Ajuji Ahmed who boasted that the party does not have Sleepless nights following the actions of the other group, said that the party is intact, contended, firmly rooted and satisfied with the state of the party that is preparing to win the 2027 Presidential Election, just as he said that the party was opened to Coalition, as its leader, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso was free to hold meetings with political party, groups or individuals.

    Ahmed who is leading the NNPP that is loyal to 2023 NNPP Presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, said that it is clearly against the law, and against common decency, for any group under the guise of any identity different from what the party stands for to refer to itself as NNPP, just as he stressed that the NNPP did not have any National Convention in recent times, meaning that no NWC was inaugurated any new NWC, adding that the current NNPP NWC was constituted in the year 2022 under the supervision of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act, 2022.

    Ahmed said, “This same hired and sponsored emergency collection of characters gathered themselves in Lagos three days ago in the name of NNPP to hold a ludicrous charade of tipsy comedians, when a Court of competent jurisdiction in Abuja on gave a clear and unmistakable injunction against them not to hold that meeting. They defied the court ruling and went ahead to hold a beer parlour meeting in a hotel lobby which they now called National Convention.

    “We want to use this medium to inform and confirm to the world that the NNPP does not operate from Apapa, we did not hold any convention this year in any hotel lobby in Lagos. Visit the INEC website and confirm for yourselves that our Party is never chaired by a Major (serving or retired) or a Dr. Major or an Agbo

    Major Dr, or whatever. Our NWC was inaugurated here in Abuja in April 2022 for a tenure of four years which ends in April 2026, and it is here in Abuja that our Party is Headquartered and operates from in accordance with the laws of the land.”

    Recall that on Tuesday last week, the Dr Boniface Aniebonam led faction of the party elected Dr Agbo Major as the new National Chairman of NNPP.

    The convention, which was held on Tueday was attended by delegates and officers of the party at national and state levels.

    Besides Agbo, other elected officers were Oginni Olaposi, National Secretary; Chief Felix Chukwurah, Deputy National Chairman (South); Mr Adetoyese Omokanye, National Treasurer; Alhaji Babayo Muhammed, Deputy National Chairman (North); and Abdulrasaq Abdulsallam as National Publicity Secretary.

    The delegates also elected Hajia Aisha Kade as National Woman Leader, Chief Edward Ofomona as National Youth Leader, and Omolara Johnson as National Organising Secretary, among others.

    Ahmed’s text read, “We, as a Political Party, would have wanted to ignore recent developments concerning this Party, except for the open assualt on the integrity of the Party and the psyche of Nigerians, by some sponsored elements posing as members and leaders of the Party. This Press Conference, therefore, is aimed at presenting the true state of affairs in the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).

    “I wish to start by acknowledging the presence in our midst today of our NNPP members of the National Assembly led by our Distinguished Ranking Senator Rufa’i Hanga. They are at the National Headquarters of our Party on a solidarity visit, and also as part of the regular consultation between our elected representatives on the platform of the Party and members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the Party.

    “Let me at this juncture inform you, and through you inform the world that there is only one NNPP under the leadership of my humble self as its National Chairman, and this NWC, with this building as the National Headquarters of the Party known to law and to the regulating agency for political parties in Nigeria, i.e. the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

    “Furthermore, the only logo of the NNPP that is known to law is the one with Red, White, Red colours with a book and academic cap in the middle, with the slogan EDUCATION FOR ALL. A visit to the INEC Website will confirm all this information.

    “Against the background of all these, it is clearly against the law, and against common decency, for any group under the guise of any identity different from what I have enumerated above, to refer to itself as NNPP. For this reason, therefore, the NNPP did not have any National Convention in recent times and so we did not

    inaugurate any new National Working Committee (NWC). The current NNPP NWC was constituted in the year 2022 under the supervision of INEC as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act, 2022.

    “Let me quickly touch on the game some of these former members of this Party are playing, prodded on by some politicians who are scared of the opposition, because they are afraid of their own shadows as we march towards the 2027 elections.

    “Immediately after the 2023 general elections, some members of this Party who openly played anti-party activities were subjected to proper disciplinary procedures and were found wanting. They were duly sanctioned, but instead of exploring the internal mechanisms put in place by the Party to address their grievances, they decided to release themselves as willing tools to outsiders in order to distract the attention of the Party. They have been jumping from pillar to post, going from one court to the other, and swiftly losing one case after another, in practically every corner of the country. They have been to, and lost, in courts in Abuja, Ekiti, Port Harcourt, Awka, Kano, and Katsina, all the time desperately seeking to mislead the courts and abuse all known court processes. All those have failed.

    “In their confusion, in November 2024, they took themselves to Court in Abia State, in the name of NNPP. Meanwhile, an Abuja Federal High Court as far back as April 2024 had ruled that, as expelled former members of the Party, they should stop parading themselves as NNPP members or leaders in any shape or form. The Federal High Court judgment of 18th April, 2024, declared them as impostors, having been expelled by the party, and as such can neither sue in the name of the party nor against the party.

    “For the purpose of clarity, on the 16th of January 2025, the High Court of FCT, gave an Order restraining them and their privies, proxies and whosoever from carrying out any official duty or activity for or on behalf of NNPP. The said orders were served on them, they have briefed their lawyers, they have appeared before the courts and filed their processes. Yet with brazen disregard to the orders of the court, the same group have gone ahead to hold this unlawful meeting and have purported to have elected members of a kangaroo National Working Committee. We are in court today 7th February 2025, and INEC has filed their process denying knowledge and existence of the so-called convention in Apapa and the purported election.

    “By the provisions of Section 83 of the Electoral Act, INEC must monitor all the activities of all Political Parties in Nigeria and keep records of such activities. By the provisions of Section 222(a) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it is a condition precedent for the registration and recognition of an association as a political party.

    ” Your media houses were all represented at the unveiling of our New logo with red white red with a book and an academic cap as well as the new Constitution of our Party which was witnessed by INEC and have been duly approved. Yet, to our dismay some media houses have been parading the old Logo and thereby promoting the mischief and deceit of the renegade group.

    We wish to use this medium and for the umpteenth time introduce the authentic and statutorily recognized Logo of NNPP to all of you today. Any further display of a Logo of the NNPP other than this very one is against the law.

    “The greatest danger to any democracy is the disregard for the rule of law. When a group of pretentious politicians consistently defies and shows contempt for the rule of law, and openly mocks our judicial system and our courts, you begin to wonder what set of unseen hands is behind the veil pushing them. It must be the same obvious forces that seek to bring chaos and disorder in all other opposition parties in our democracy.

    For those same forces, the best case scenario in the lead up to 2027 is the absence of all opposition, knowing full well that 2027 would practically be unsurmountable for them, given the rampant weaponization of hunger and desperation across the land. Be that as it may, history bears witness to the unalterable fact that the true hallmark of a vibrant democracy is a robust opposition. It is this robust opposition the NNPP will continue to represent on behalf of the good people of Nigeria.

    ” We want to use this medium to inform and confirm to the world that the NNPP does not operate from Apapa, we did not hold any convention this year in any hotel lobby in Lagos. Visit the INEC website and confirm for yourselves that our Party is never chaired by a Major (serving or retired) or a Dr. Major or an Agbo Major Dr, or whatever. Our NWC was inaugurated here in Abuja in April 2022 for a tenure of four yearswhich ends in April 2026, and it is here in Abuja that our Party is Headquartered and operates from in accordance with the laws of the land.”