The National Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr. Ogini Olaposi, has clarified that Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso’s plan to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) is a personal move alongside his Kwankwasiya Movement, not an action of the NNPP.
In a statement issued Monday in Lagos, Olaposi said Kwankwaso’s declaration on Saturday confirmed that he and his supporters are no longer part of the NNPP.
“At last we have been vindicated. All negotiations by any party with Kwankwaso should be done in his individual capacity,” Olaposi said. “Our party will now rest from the Movement’s resistance after they were expelled for anti-party activities.”
He stressed that any future alliance with the APC or another party ahead of the 2027 general elections would be a collective decision of NNPP members, not an individual move.
Olaposi added that the Memorandum of Understanding between the NNPP and the Kwankwasiya Movement effectively ended after the 2023 presidential election, accusing Kwankwaso’s camp of attempting to “hijack the party” before their exit.
According to the NNPP scribe, many of Kwankwaso’s Kano followers had already defected to the APC, leaving the former Kano governor without a formal political platform.
