ABEOKUTA – The National Secretary of New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Comrade Oginni Olaposi Sunday has warned the former Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai to refrain from accusing the presidency of orchestrating crisis in the party.
Recall that El-Rufai had on Monday claimed President Bola Tinubu was responsible for the crisis in opposition parties in the country, including NNPP.
But the NNPP Scribe on Wednesday in a press release urged Mallam El-Rufai to disassociate President Tinubu from the party’s internal crisis and tender apology to the party.
Oginni described the ranting of the former Governor of Kaduna State on the expulsion of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and the suspension of Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State from NNPP as a cry of a drowning man.
NNPP Secretary said that “it is unfortunate that Mallam Nasir El Rufai who has just decamped from APC to SDP was seeing making an unfounded allegations against the leadership of NNPP alleging sponsorship of the expulsion of Kwankwaso and the suspension of Gov. Abba Yusuf by the Federal Government.
“To make the record straight and to educate Mallam Nasir El Rufai on the genesis and revelations of the crisis that led to the expulsion of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and the subsequent suspension of Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State, we shall ask Mallam Nasir El Rufai to ask his friend (Kwankwaso) to answer the following questions before the allegations of interference or sponsorship by the Federal Government can be substantiated”.
Oginni queried that it was the federal government that asked Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to go to Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam in February 2022 to prostrate and beg for NNPP’s platform in the company of Buba Galadima, Senator Hunkuyi and others?
He further stressed Was it the Federal Government that asked Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to insult the founder of NNPP, Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam?
He argued further that was it the federal government that asked Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to embarked on an illegal Convention that culminated to the illegal change of NNPP logo to that of the Private school of Kwankwaso and the color to his illegal Kwankwasia group?
He posited that if the federal government could not be blamed for the sack of commissioners and Chief of Staff by the Kano State Governor, Yusuf Abbas, the presidency should be exempted from any malfeasance within NNPP.
The NNPP Scribe, however, gave El-Rufai 48hours to tender unreserved apology to the party leadership on the alleged sponsorship of crisis by the presidency or risk legal prosecution.
“Consequently, we are calling on Mallam Nasir El Rufai to publicly tender an unreserved apology to the founder of New Nigeria People’s Party, Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam and the party leadership on the unfortunate allegation of sponsorship by federal government.
“We are giving Mallam Nasir El Rufai the next 48hours to tender his apology for his reckless statement or face prosecution for defamatory statements against the innocent leaders of the New Nigeria People’s Party.”
