The New Nigeria Peoples Affair has appear the acumen its above Civic Chairman, Prof Rufa’i Alkali, and added associates of the affair larboard for the All Progressives Congress.
The party, in a account by its Civic Publicity Secretary, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, on Wednesday, said Alkali, Prof Bem Angwe, Senator Othman Hunkuyi and several others larboard the affair “due to airs and clamorous admiration to booty over a belvedere affably donated by Dr Boniface Aniebonam and its mother organisation – NAGAFF for use in the 2023 accepted election.”
The APC beforehand acquaint on its official X handle that its civic chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Wednesday, accustomed 26 chieftains of the NNPP into the affair in Abuja.
The cardinal APC posted, “The Civic Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje accustomed into the APC, 26 chieftains of the New Nigeria People’s Party, including the immediate-past Civic Administrator of the party, Prof Rufa’i Alkali, and three governorship candidates.”
NNPP’s Abdulrasaq in the account said, “Recall that the role of Prof Bem Angwe and Senator Suleiman Othman Hunkuyi as signatories to the MOU amid Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and NNPP arch to the admixture of the Kwankwassiyya and TNM groups has been again appear to the press.
“Note additionally that Alkali emerged as civic administrator at the assemblage that anchored the abutment on March 30, 2022, but larboard the affair and his position on March 30, 2023, due to declared airs and clashing differences with Kwankwaso on issues of absolute tendencies and afresh the admiration to booty over fraudulently, a belvedere that he was affably accustomed by a affable old man to actualise his appetite of active for the admiral of Nigeria.”
Abdulrasaq said that Angwe, a attestant to the MOU who continued ago withdrew his signature afore the certificate itself asleep afterwards the 2023 acclamation had allegedly complained of attempts to advertise off his governorship admission in Benue accompaniment (which he struggled so adamantine to win) to the accomplished bidder.
“He thereafter developed algid anxiety alike admitting it afflicted his achievement in the 2023 acclamation admitting the cutting adulation he enjoys from the acceptable bodies of Benue State.”
The account added appear that Senator Hunkuyi, a attestant to the MOU who additionally withdrew continued ago, on his allotment has been at war aisle with Kwankwaso alike while he served aural the party’s authoritative anatomy as Civic Organising Secretary.
“He complained of high-handedness, imposition, abnegation to accept to others and several added affidavit while confined the party. The clashing differences continued to the aeon afterwards arising as the governorship applicant of NNPP in Kaduna state.
“While the attack lasted, there was no apparent acquaintance or synergy with the governorship applicant due to the breach which was actual obvious,” allotment of the account read.
It added that Hunkuyi had announced his abandonment to the architect of the party, Dr Boniface Aniebonam, to whom he additionally apologised for all the embarrassment faced admitting his altruism during the aeon they came into the party.
Abdulrasaq said the alienation of the 26 chieftains hit the affair like a thunderstorm at a time aback the new administration of Dr Agbo Majo has set up a Special Committee to collaborate with them.
“Our job at this point is to ambition them able-bodied in their break in the new party. It is our achievement that they would adore the accurate aspect of centralized capitalism and openness, the acumen why they larboard NNPP for their new party.
“It was absolutely our admiration to accept retained them beneath the new administration of Dr Agbo Major who is anon alive actual adamantine to restore centralized capitalism and amends in the party’s leadership.
He, however, acclaimed that the doors of the affair are still broadly accessible to accept the 26 defected associates aback as co-fathers of the new NNPP it is anon building.
“In the interim, we ambition them able-bodied in their attempt to re-invent our baby country, Nigeria through their new political party,” he expressed.