NNPP factional chairman: Kwankwaso, loyalists left us when 2022 alliance collapsed

Agbo Major, factional national chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says Rabiu Kwankwaso and his supporters ceased to be members of the party after the breakdown of their alliance in 2022.

In a statement on Tuesday, the NNPP faction led by Kwankwaso had announced that its national executive council (NEC) meeting will be held on August 28.

Speaking in an interview with News Central TV on Friday, Major insisted that there are no factions within the NNPP.

“The NNPP has no faction anywhere,” he said.

“The NNPP has a NWC that is led by myself, and then the board of trustees that is led by Dr Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, who is also the founder of the party. By implication, we have no faction anywhere.”

He dismissed reports that another group is planning to hold a national executive committee meeting using the NNPP’s name.

“Of course, I read it also on the papers that the group somewhere is planning a national executive committee using the name of our party for 28th or something like that and at that meeting they are likely to take a decision on what to do,” he said.

“First, let it be placed on record here, and you media people must also help Nigerians to understand the exact state of affairs within the party.

“The true position is that the people that you are referring to are members of the Kwankwasiya group led by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from Kano state. We have repeatedly mentioned this.”

Major said Kwankwaso and his loyalists left the NNPP after the political alliance that brought them together collapsed.

“These people ceased to be members of our party since August 2023, when the marriage that brought us together in 2022 was dissolved by those who consummated the marriage, including myself and Dr Boniface Aniebonam, the founder of the party, and since then they’ve never been part of us,” he added.

“Of course, they keep deceiving innocent Nigerians on the streets that they are members of the party, but inside the party we know quite clearly that these people are no longer members of our party.”