The national leadership crisis rocking the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has as stakeholders and executive members of the party in Kwara state rejected the purported dissolution of the party’s state executive.
They also rejected the constitution of a caretaker commitee for the state even as they pledged their allegiance to the chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the party, Dr Boniface Aniebonam.
The National Working Committee (NEC) of the party had announced the dissolution of seven state executives namely Zamfara, Ogun, Ekiti, Kaduna, Niger and Rivers chapters.
However, Chairman Board of Trustees (BOT) of the party, Dr Boniface Aniebonam, directed all states affected by the purported dissolution of their executives by the NEC to maintain the status quo.
Rising from an expanded state executive meeting attended by chairmen and secretaries of NNPP across the 16 local government areas of Kwara state in Ilorin, on Sunday, the NNPP leaders and stakeholders said they were not aware of any dissolution of the state executive.
They said no formal communication was made to the party leadership in the state and as such they would not believe or act on “rumours “.
At the meeting, the NNPP chairman in Kwara state who doubles as the chairman of the Forum of NNPP states chairmen, Alh AbdulSalam AbdulRazaq, blamed the crisis at the national level of on Kwankwasiya members who he said “are desperate on taking over the party structures in all states.”
“As far as we are concerned, we have not received any formal letter about dissolution of our state executive, we are still regarding it as rumours . The executives of NNPP in Kwara remains intacts and we align with the position of the chairman of our party’s Board of Trustees Chief Boniface Aniebonam, had directed that the status quo should be maintained “, AbdulRazaq said.
The NNPP chairman also reffered members of the party to the provision of the constitution of the party which vested so much power in the the BOT even more than the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party.
He advised the presidential candidate of the party, Senator Rabiu Kwakwanso, to counsel the Kwankwasiya elements to operate and act in accordance with the party’s constitution.
He reminded Kwakwanso and his supporters that NNPP had been in existence for more than 20 years before they joined the party, with rules and regulations guiding its operation.
