THE crisis rocking the opposition. New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) may have gotten messier as the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party has announced the expulsion of its presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso,
Eighteen-Eleven Media reports that the former Kano State governor had earlier been suspended from the party following allegations of gross anti-party activities and mismanagement of party/campaign funds. But the latest action is hinged on the refusal of Senator Kwankwaso to appear before the party’s disciplinary committee set up to look into the aforementioned allegations.
The NEC had set up a disciplinary committee and directed it to invite Kwankwaso to defend the allegations within five days.
The committee reportedly sat on Thursday, 31st August, but Kwankwaso did not appear.
The Acting National Publicity Secretary of the party, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, in a statement on Tuesday, said the NEC had expelled Kwankwaso with immediate effect.
“The NEC met in an emergency session on Friday, 1st September and resolved that following the refusal of Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to appear before the disciplinary committee which sat on Thursday, 31st August after being duly invited in writing, he is hereby expelled from NNPP with immediate effect,” Abdulrasaq said.
“That the erstwhile presidential candidate, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso will be reported to appropriate quarters to answer questions on financial impropriety relating to mismanagement of public funds.”
Eighteen-Eleven Media recalls that the crisis within the party started when on 24th August 2023 some members of the party’s NWC loyal to Kwankwaso announced the suspension of the NNPP founder, Dr Boniface Aniebonam and the National Publicity Secretary, Dr Agbo Major.
The suspension was in response to the expulsion of Kwankwaso’s loyalists from the party.
Kwankwaso had earlier been suspended by the party’s leadership at the National Convention on 29 August in Lagos.
Eighteen-Eleven Media