A faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party has announced it will probe the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwanso over an alleged misappropriation of N1 billion sum.
The NNPP faction under the leadership of Major Agbo said some Kwankwanso’s loyalists will also probed for misappropriating the sum generated from sale of nomination forms.
The faction also accused NNP chieftain, Buba Galadima of favouring and imposing some candidates of the party over others.
In a statement released on Sunday following a meeting at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, the NNPP factional National Publicity Secretary, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, said;
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“NNPP will conduct a thorough probe into the mismanagement of well over one billion naira raised from the sale of forms to aspirants from March 2022 to date. The meeting resolved to invite relevant security agencies to properly examine the accounts of the party with a view to demanding explanations from the party’s presidential candidate, the party’s chairman who left in March 2023, the sacked acting chairman, and the National Secretary.
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“This is to restore the confidence of party members and candidates who came forward with their hard-earned money to purchase forms. The party also queried the rationale for the location of the Situation Room in the presidential candidate’s personal residence.
“It noted that the illegal location created room for massive corruption and manipulation leading to the imposition of candidates by Buba Galadima and his co-travellers and resolved to set up a committee to launch a probe into it. It therefore called for written complaints from aggrieved candidates who were shortchanged after making payments for forms into the party’s account.”
“The party also resolved to query the rationale behind the denial of other presidential aspirants the right to purchase form and participate in the primary election that illegally produced Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso insisting that it was against the spirit of fairness and equity which our great party preaches.
“The party called on its numerous members and supporters to remain calm in the face of this brazen assault of the Kwankwasiya movement whose members were erroneously made to believe the party is sold to them and called on all aggrieved and displaced members who left for whatever reason to return home. The party resolved to overhaul its structures across all levels nationwide in the coming days and weeks,” he said.
