Agbo Major, a New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) official, has repeated that Rabiu Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has been formally dismissed.
According to Major, who now serves as the party’s chairman, the decision to oust Kwankwaso resulted from an alleged attempt by the former Kano State governor and his followers to seize control of the party from its original founders.
Major maintains that the expulsion was important to protect the party’s integrity and prevent Kwankwaso and his loyalists from taking power.
“The whole concept was okay, this man (founder) is a good man, he listens, and so on and so forth, so let us dominate him and take over the party.” That’s what they intended, but they found in us the determination to prevent it,” Major remarked on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.
He stated that Kwankwaso’s side joined the party the previous year as part of a deal that permitted them to run in the 2023 elections.
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“They came with us last year for the election.” They joined us on the strength of a document, a Memorandum of Understanding, which granted them the possibility to run for various elective seats in the 2023 general election.
“That MoU explicitly stated that at the end of the election, they could go their way, or we come back again to redesign that marriage and see if we will be able to continue or not, but when we saw their activities, we discovered that there is no way the marriage is going to continue, we had to ask them to go, and that is the situation now,” he went on to say.
Following the end of the 2023 elections, the NNPP has been involved in a crisis, with internal groups within the party resorting to tactics such as suspensions and expulsions against one another.
The Agbo Major faction is mostly made up of longtime party members, whereas the opposing camp is made up of people who support Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate.
