The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) says allegations by former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el’Rufai, that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) caused its crisis are false and condemnable. The party spoke on the backdrop of the recent allegations by el’Rufai that the crises in the PDP, Labour Party, and NNPP were caused and fuelled by the APC. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the former Kaduna state governor had alleged that the APC was behind the internal crises rocking the opposition parties. In a viral video on X on Tuesday, El-Rufai claimed that President Bola Tinubu’s administration was deliberately sponsoring disputes within these parties to weaken their leadership. In a statement in Lagos on Wednesday, the NNPP’s National Chairman, Dr Agbo Major, said the party was compelled to respond to el’Rufai because his utterances linking the NNPP challenges to the APC were misguided. “El’Rufai’s assertions were inaccurate information he may have gathered from enemies of the NNPP’s internal democratic processes.” Major pointed out that the crisis in NNPP, which had been resolved, was a result of the inordinate ambition of some members in total disregard for agreements and party rules and regulations. “The genesis of the crisis in the NNPP erupted shortly after the 2023 general elections as a result of the termination of a Memorandum of Understanding that struck a temporary union between the NNPP, the National Movement (TNM), and the Kwankwassiya Movement. “The genesis and progress of the disagreement have been vigorously put there in the open, using all media platforms since 2023. “If the ordinary and uneducated Nigerians are familiar with the facts about the raging crisis, then it’s disappointing for El’rufai to come to the open media to make such an unguarded and unacceptable statement. “Nigerians are no longer to be deceived. El’rufai must know that the choice of who rules Nigeria come 2027 can never be determined by him.”
The national chairman urged El’rufai to stay away from NNPP issues, as the party is not in opposition to any other, including the APC.
He said the subject matter in Nigeria should be the welfare and well-being of all Nigerians through good governance, hard work, collaboration, and observance of the rule of law.
