A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Buba Galadima, has described the suspension of the party’s presidential candidate in the last presidential election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, as “Nollywood jokes”.
Politics Nigeria reported that the party’s BoT on Tuesday suspended Kwankwaso alongside the National Working Committee members for alleged anti-party activities.
Galadima, while reacting to the report during Channels Television’s Politics Today, said the party’s National Executive Committee, in its meeting in Abuja, only expelled the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Major Gabriel Agbo, and those involved in the flagbearer’s sanction.
The NNPP chieftain explained that the parallel meeting of some members of the party in Lagos, where Kwankwaso was purportedly suspended, was illegal, saying they didn’t seek the permission of the Independent National Electoral Commission, which was supposed to be present in such a meeting.
He said: “All of them that were expelled were called to face a disciplinary committee, and they were drilled and accepted their sins. It is on this basis that they were recommended to the National Working Committee for expulsion.”
Galadima also said the NNPP NEC would suspend them so they had to stage a counter-coup with seven of them congregated in Lagos to suspend Kwankwaso
On allegations that Kwankwaso was involved in anti-party activities by hobnobbing with President Bola Tinubu and the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, Galadima said the former Kano governor got the approval of the party to meet with the President.
