Speaking at a news conference in Lagos on Friday, Aniebonam,
a former chairman of the BoT, said Kwankwaso is making attempts to hijack the
party’s structure.
“Buba Galadima led the delegation, including Senator
Suleiman Hunkuyi and Professor Sam Angai to my country home in Anambra, to
plead for us to accept Kwankwaso in the NNPP,” he said.
“After the talks, I placed a call to Kwankwaso and after
asking him questions about his intentions for Nigeria, I offered him the
platform of NNPP as its sole candidate.
“I believed that
Kwankwaso was not aware of the internal crisis in the party until he came out
openly on live television, displaying a new logo and flag for the NNPP and
mutilating its constitution.
“It is disturbing and if I continue to keep quiet, it will
not be in the interest of the soul of the party as the founder and at some
point, its board chairman.
“The party’s constitution says the founder is a life member
of the board and even when I’m alive, my brother and good friend, Kwankwaso,
for whatever reasons, is destroying the party I built from 2002 to 2022 when he
joined us to contest the 2023 presidency.
“I funded the party for 22 years and Kwankwaso wants to
hijack it even when he is not a member of the board of trustees or the leader
of the party.
“The kangaroo
convention even when there was a court order stopping it, is null and void
because a Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ruled that the NNPP issue is
an internal crisis.
“This means that the issues can only be settled using the
constitution. However, we are ready to pursue the interpretation of the
constitution up to the Supreme Court.”
Aniebonam maintained that Kwankwaso and others were expelled
from the party for anti-party activities.
The NNPP founder added that he would grant him a pardon if
he purged himself of what he was doing.
