The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has faulted former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, over claims that the party is part of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) coalition.
PrimeTimes Nigeria reports that this comes following Atiku’s interview with ARISE Television, where he listed NNPP and other political parties as members of the coalition in ADC.
However, the NNPP National Secretary, Ogini Olaposi, in a statement on Thursday, said the party is not a member of the coalition and has no intention of joining or collapsing into the ADC.
Olaposi stated that the membership of former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, and other politicians, such as Ahmed Ajuji and Buba Galadima, as well as the Kwankwasiya Movement in the ADC, had nothing to do with the NNPP as a political party.
According to Olaposi, the Kwankwasiya members who followed Kwankwaso were in the minority, stressing that the ADC should not be deceived by the rented crowd seen in Kano when the former Kano Governor joined the party.
Olaposi added that the majority of the Kwankwasiya Movement group were now in the APC.
He said, “We are so surprised that Abubakar, a frontline presidential aspirant of the ADC, could make such an assertion that NNPP is now in ADC.
“Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya movement are members of the coalition group, and there is verifiable evidence that some members of the group followed Kwankwaso to the new party.
“NNPP is not after anyone or group but merely a political party seeking to contest elections in Nigeria like other political parties.
“We have nothing against the ADC, but we also do not want to be part of it.
“The Memorandum of Association we had with the Kwankwasiya movement expired after the 2023 general elections. Kwankwaso and others were equally expelled from the NNPP.
“We can also say that some members of the Kwankwasiya movement joined the APC with their leader.”