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The New Nigerian Peoples Party NNPP has suspended Rabiu Musa Kwakwanso,its leader flagbearer of the March 25 presidential election.
Kwakwanso popularly known as the Kano strong man was suspended for six months by the Board of Trustees (BoT) for alleged anti-party activities.
The BoT also suspended the national working committee (NWC) of the party and named new national officers .
Those appointed include Agbo Major, acting national chairman and Ogini Olaposi ,acting national secretary and 18 others.
current matters gathered that the suspensions were put to a voice vote by members of the party at its special general assembly, held at the Rockview Hotels in Apapa.
The NWC of the party on Thursday, Aug. 24, announced the suspension of the founder of the party, Boniface Aniebonam and the national publicity secretary.
Secretary of the BoT,Addressing Babayo Muhammed Abdullahi while addressing newsmen at the end of the meeting in Lagos on Tuesday, accused Kwankwaso of hobnobbing with President Bola Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi, without the board’s authorisation.
Abdullahi announced that Mr Kwankwaso had been stripped of the NNPP national leader status by the board.pointing out that the purported suspension of the NNPP founder was a flagrant gross violation of the party’s constitution and voided every pre – election Understanding reached with the Kwankwasia Movement.
According to him,Mr Aniebonam resigned as the BoT chairman and a new BoT chairman, Tope Aluko was elected with , Abdulahi as new BoT secretary, while Tony Obioha was elected as BoT spokesperson.
“The purported suspension of the founder is a flagrant gross violation of the NNPP constitution such that it is tantamount to recklessness and irresponsibility on the part of the incompetent NWC.
“The BoT decided that material evidence in the public sector affirmed that Kwankwaso was involved in anti-party activities in various meetings, suggest political discussions with the President, Atiku and Obi without authorisation from the board.
” This has earned him six months suspension pending the outcome of investigation by the Disciplinary Committee.
“The BOT insisted that the avoidable violation of MoU between NNPP on the one part and Kwankwasia, TNM and NAGAFF on the other has no other choice than to withdraw from the partnership.
“It is therefore to state clearly that the MOU have been rendered void.”
The acting chairman, Mr Major also spoke assuring that his team would hit the ground running by healing the wounds created by the suspended NWC members.
He said ,
“We don’t intend to shut anybody out or censor anybody but we want to ensure that we remain on track and maintain our people-oriented ideology,” he said.
