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\u201cI hereby encourage all members of our great party, and indeed the indigenes of Kano in particular, to keep faith in the final decision of God under these avoidable circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n
APC using clandestine moves to turn Nigeria into a one party state, says NNPP<\/p>\n
The New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) has accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of using clandestine moves to annihilate other political parties and drag the country into a one party system.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a news conference in Abuja Sunday, Acting National Chairman of the NNPP, Alhaji Kawu Ali said the APC must immediately halt its moves to truncate democracy in the country and turn the country into a one party state.<\/p>\n
Ali said the international community must also take steps to support the country to deepen multi-party democracy and stop the APC from turning\u00a0 Nigeria into a one \u2013party state.<\/p>\n
He described the Appeal Court judgement as a convoluted judgment, saying \u201cwe are gathered here today to convey our outright rejection of and express our dismay at the ruling of the Court of Appeal in respect of the only elected governor on the platform of\u00a0 our dear party, the New Nigeria peoples Party NNPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say the least, we are shocked at the miscarriage of justice delivered on Friday 17th November, 2023 on the Governorship Election Petition of Kano State.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would recall that the candidate of our party, in the March 2023 governorship election in Kano State, Alhaji Abba Kabir was overwhelmingly elected by the good people of Kano State with a whopping votes of 1,019,602 to defeat the APC candidate who came a distant second. The margin between Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and the APC candidate was around 130,000 votes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may also recall that the candidate of the APC conceded defeat and congratulated Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf immediately. Surprisingly, after the issuance of Certificate of Return by INEC, the APC filed a bogus petition before the election tribunal which its own candidate refused to join.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn spite of overwhelming evidence presented to the tribunal by our team of lawyers, the tribunal passed one of the most ridiculous judgments in the history of election jurisprudence in Nigeria and unjustly declared the APC candidate, who never joined the petition as the winner of the election.<\/p>\n
\u201cBelieving in the credibility of the judiciary and its ability to correct any error of judgment by the lower court, our party approached the Court of Appeal and prayed the appellate court to set aside the unjust ruling of the lower court.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo our greatest shock and consternation, the Court of Appeal on Friday 17th November, 2023 delivered a convoluted judgment that was anchored around their erroneous belief that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo claim that His Excellency Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf was not a member of the NNPP at the time of the 2023 general election, is to say the least, the worst of mischief anybody can come up with. For the avoidance doubt, Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf was, and is still a card carrying bonafide member of the NNPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny claim to the contrary is only in the figment of the imagination of the mischief \u2013makers. How could he have contested the election when the INEC portal for the submission of Candidates Nomination and Expression of Interest Forms could not have accepted any form that was not uploaded together with the copy of the NNPP Membership Card of the nominee?<\/p>\n
\u201cFor our party, and we are sure for INEC as well, the issue of Membership of Candidate is a non-issue since the system of nomination is designed by INEC in such a way that only registered members can be nominated and uploaded onto the portal.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is therefore unbelievable that the Appeal Court would refuse to look at the merit of our party\u2019s appeal and cling to the erroneous issue of membership that has already been settled severally by both the Appeal and Supreme Courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are therefore informing all members of the NNPP and indeed all Nigerians that our party has already briefed our lawyers to appeal this injustice at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we believe that the Supreme Court will correct the errors of the tribunal and the Appeal Court and restore the mandate of the good people of Kano State by re-affirming Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf as the duly elected Governor of Kano State, we are not unmindful of the political desperation of the APC leaders in Kano State, who were roundly rejected at the polls and who are now scampering to hijack power at all cost through the chambers of the Court as they did in 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are therefore calling on all well-meaning Nigerians to intervene in the Kano situation as it is increasingly becoming the test case for the survival of democracy in Nigeria and the credibility of the judicial system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ruling party must not be allowed to be using the chambers of the Courts to annihilate and incinerate opposition parties.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe pray that the Judiciary would live up to its calling as the temple of justice and the last hope of the common man. So far members of\u00a0 the NNPP Nationwide and the people of Kano State are yet to get justice from the Judiciary.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are therefore calling on the ruling party to save democracy in Nigeria by halting their clandestine moves to annihilate all other political parties and drag the country into a one party system.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are calling on the international community to support our country to deepen multi-party democracy and stop the APC from turning the country into a one \u2013party state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Merger talks: Shendam not speaking for NNPP \u2013 Nat\u2019l chairman<\/p>\n
The National leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says Yabuku Shendam is not its National Publicity Secretary, and so, cannot speak for the party including rumoured merger plan with other political parties.<\/p>\n
The NNPP National Chairman, Dr Major Agbo, who disclosed this in a statement yesterday, said that Alhaji Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, remained the National Publicity Secretary of the NNPP.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe insist he is not a card carrying member of our party but probably the spokesman of Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso\u2019s kwankwasiya group,\u201d Agbo said.<\/p>\n
The chairman was reacting to recent statements by Shendam on the reported call by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the PDP for a merger among opposition parties to wrestle power from the APC in 2027.<\/p>\n
He said that Shendam was quoted as saying \u201cthe NNPP could only accept the proposal if Atiku would support Kwankwaso, to wrest power from the APC in 2027\u201d.<\/p>\n
Agbo described Shendam as speaking for Kwankwaso whom he said, had long been expelled from the party by the NNPP Board of Trustees (BoT).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe BoT in its meeting on Aug. 28, had expelled Kwankwaso and the decision was ratified by the National Convention of Aug. 29 in Lagos due to anti party activities and\u00a0 other serious infractions.<\/p>\n
\u201cKwankwaso is no longer a member of our party, cannot be its presidential candidate in 2027 and Shendam needs to know this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Agbo said\u00a0 the party was not, however,\u00a0 averse to any proposition that could bring true dividends of democracy to ordinary Nigerians\u201cEvery Nigerian is interested in having a true democracy that is all inclusive, what we have now is far away from democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, if there is a proposition by opposition elements to ensure that democracy is installed, why not?.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, that proposition must be given a good thought, considered by the founder and other founding members of our party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said that such a proposition must also be considered by the National Working Committee led by him,\u00a0 and not by Kwankwaso and his kwankwassiya group.<\/p>\n
Agbo added: \u201cAnything that will make Nigerians witness democracy is accepted but our certificate is independent.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur certificate cannot be subsumed into any other as being imagined by Kwankwaso, Buba Galadima, Shendam and their kwankwassiya group who are no longer members of our party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has revealed the joker used by the party to nail the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) at the Appeal Court last Friday. Ganduje said that the NNPP\u2019s desperation\u00a0 to have a governor in Kano State was its greatest undoing as it gave ticket […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":155585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2,4],"tags":[46089,16625,32,65165,3541,45276],"yoast_head":"\n
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