By Ismail Auwal
The race for New Nigerian People’s Party (NNPP) tickets has heated up, with 15 aspirants vying for the presidential ticket ahead of the party’s convention on March 30, according to the party’s publicity secretary.
The NNPP’s National Publicity Secretary, Ambassador Agbo Major, said the party has begun to extract big-name politicians and political groups such as The National Movement (TNM), Kwankwasiyya Political Movement, Market Women Groups in Osun and Gombe States, youth groups, and defectors from other political parties.
He noted that the party is on a rescue mission to redirect the ship of the nation from its perilous course.
“As Nigerians continue to embrace NNPP, our great party has so far received 15 presidential aspirants and several aspirants for governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives and State House of Assembly seats.”
“NNPP is democratic in its internal operations and urges aspirants to take advantage of this generally acclaimed democratic disposition to freely contest for its tickets.”
Major said that Aspirants are assured of a level playing field as we jointly strive to build a new Nigeria which all citizens will be proud of.
“As a grassroots political party, aspirants are also enjoined to carry out issue-based campaigns and eschew politics of bitterness and brigandage that impeded the nation’s democratic development,” he said.
The NNPP has scheduled the Party’s Zonal Congresses to take place on March 28, 2022, across the Federation.
“The climax of these giant strides in repositioning the Party is the National Convention which will hold in Abuja on 30th March to elect substantive national officers of the Party,” Ambassador Agbo said.
“Previous governments failed to make the Nigerian dream possible. Fellow compatriots are today more impoverished than they were in 1999 as the much taunted dividends of democracy remain a mirage.”
“As a mass movement, a third leg in the nation’s political tripod and a leading opposition party in the country, the New Nigeria People’s Party has become the beautiful bride of Nigerian democracy.”
Former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, is allegedly tidying up to defect from the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, to the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP.
SAHELIAN TIMES gathered that many groups have collapsed their structures into the NNPP in preparation to officially welcome Senator Kwankwaso into the party with funfairs in a welcome rally that will “shake the entire country.”
The Party had also successfully conducted Ward, Local Government, and State Congresses across the country.
“However, State Congresses in Rivers, Imo, Plateau, and FCT were suspended due to minor disagreements,” Major disclosed.
