Kwankwaso sets to move political structure into NNPP
The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) national executive committee has dissolved its state and national executives on Tuesday.
The party therefore constituted a caretaker committee to run the affairs of the party for one month, after which it will elect new officers into office at a national convention that has not gotten a date yet.
The party’s dissolution of the national and state executives is said to be a move towards repositioning and expanding its frontiers to accommodate new interests.
Earlier, the party’s national secretary, Mr Agbo Major, had told newsmen that the former governor of Kano state, Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was bringing his entire political structures into the party.
Major stated this in an interview in Abuja on Tuesday before the party’s extraordinary NEC meeting, noting that the party was repositioning as a prelude to its national convention.
The NNPP national scribe said there was need for the party to adjust to be able to accommodate the interest that were coming adding that such crucial decisions to be taken at the meeting would midwife the party’s national convention.
He said “We are meeting to reposition the party. It’s extraordinary in the sense that we are opening the frontiers of the party, a lot of Nigerians are coming in and there is need for us to adjust to be able to accommodate the interest that are coming in. These are the very crucial decisions we about to take that is going to midwife the national convention.
“We are expanding. A lot of interest blocs are coming in, so we are expanding the frontiers of the party.
“We have read Nigerians speculating, saying whatever they want to say but the only thing I can tell you as a secretary of the party is that we are in deep talk with Kwankwaso. In fact, we have almost concluded.
Kwankwaso had last week launched a political group known as the The National Movement (TNM).
Major added that “In the next few days, we are reverting back to Nigerians to tell them what understanding we have had with the man. But I can assure you that he is on his way into New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
“NNPP is a very old party and so we have seen a lot of these things (merger, alliance and coalition) come and go. We have never believed in this coalition thing because we have experimented it, in 2007, we went into some form of electoral alliance, we didn’t get what we wanted to get and unfortunately, Nigerians do not seem to understand the difference between coalition and merger.”
“That’s why they will tell you that what you need to do is to come together. Coming together entails either a merger arrangement or a coalition. We have experimented coalition repeatedly, it has not given us any result.
“The only thing we have tried and has worked is merger and merger means letting go your party identity. So, we are not discussing with any group or any other political party in any of these two directions. We have always gone alone,” he said.
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