The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, and leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he has decided to remain silent on the ongoing internal crisis bedevilling the party in the state.
Kwankwaso made this statement on Tuesday when fielding questions from newsmen in his Miller Road residence in Kano, noting that he had nothing to say about the issue.
“I don’t want to talk, please. Don’t drag me into what I am not supposed to be dragged into. The chairman of the party has spoken and has been speaking, reach out to him,” he said.
Thegazellenews.com reports that some factional members of the party have disowned Kwankwaso as the party leader.
Leading the anti-Kwankwasiya campaign at the party secretariat in Minna, Niger State, the factional National Chairman of the party, Dr. Gilbert Agbo, said Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya group were threats to the progress and existence of the party.
Agbo stressed that Kwankwaso’s suspension by the National Working Committee in Lagos automatically terminated his membership and stake in the party.
The factional National Chairman, who also supervised the burning of the Kwankwasiya group’s iconic red caps at the state secretariat of the party in the state, said the move signified a clear statement to dissociate themselves from Kwankwaso’s faction.
He said that Governor Kabir Yusuf of Kano State was expected to appear before the party’s disciplinary committee for failing to comply with the party’s principles and supremacy.
Reacting to the development, Mallam Danladi Umar Abdulhamid, leader of the Kwankwasiya Movement in Niger State, said Dr. Agbo’s national chairman was illegal, saying that the move was meant to serve his interests rather than the interest of people.
Abdulhamid said Kwankwaso remained the national leader of the party under Dr. Ahmed Ajuji’s leadership.
