NNPP not factionalized says Ahmed, national chair

From Okwe Obi, Abuja

National Chairman of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Dr. Ajuji Ahmed, has dispelled rumour of a factionalized party.

Ahmed explained that most people who parade themselves as members of the party were expelled because of the indecent roles they played in the 2023 general elections.

According to him, the NNPP did not organize any national convention in recent times and “so we did not inaugurate any new National Working Committee (NWC).”

He said: “We, as a Political Party, would have wanted to ignore recent developments concerning this Party, except for the open assault on the integrity of the Party and the psyche of Nigerians, by some sponsored elements posing as members and leaders of the Party.

“Let me at this juncture inform you, and through you inform the world that there is only one NNPP under the leadership of my humble self as its National Chairman, and this NWC, with this building as the National Headquarters of the Party known to law and to the regulating agency for political parties in Nigeria, i.e. the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

“Furthermore, the only logo of the NNPP that is known to law is the one with Red, White, Red colours with a book and academic cap in the middle, with the slogan Education for All. A visit to the INEC Website will confirm all this information.

“Against the background of all these, it is clearly against the law, and against common decency, for any group under the guise of any identity different from what I have enumerated above, to refer to itself as NNPP.

“For this reason, therefore, the NNPP did not have any National Convention in recent times and so we did not inaugurate any new National Working Committee (NWC).

“The current NNPP NWC was constituted in the year 2022 under the supervision of INEC as stipulated in the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Electoral Act, 2022.

“Let me quickly touch on the game some of these former members of this Party are playing, prodded on by some politicians who are scared of the opposition, because they are afraid of their own shadows as we march towards the 2027 elections.

“Immediately after the 2023 general elections, some members of this Party who openly played anti-party activities were subjected to proper disciplinary procedures and were found wanting.

“They were duly sanctioned, but instead of exploring the internal mechanisms put in place by the Party to address their grievances, they decided to release themselves as willing tools to outsiders in order to distract the attention of the Party.

“They have been jumping from pillar to post, going from one court to the other, and swiftly losing one case after another, in practically every corner of the country.”