NNPP Expels Kwankwaso
(Business Africa Digest) –
The deepening crisis rocking the New Nigeria Peoples Party(NNPP), has consumed the Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, it’s Presidential Candidate as he has been expelled with immediate effect.
The acting National Publicity Secretary of the party, Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq, announced this in a statement made available to Business Africa Digest in Abuja .
The statement said the expulsion followed the resolution of the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) held on Friday 1st September, 2023.
.The NNPP NEC said the expulsion was sequel to the “refusal by Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to appear before the Disciplinary Committee which sat on Thursday 31st August 2023 after being duly invited in writing and he is hereby expelled from New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) with immediate effect”.
NNPP NEC also resolved that the erstwhile presidential candidate, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso would be reported to appropriate quarters to answer questions on financial impropriety relating to mismanagement of public funds.
Business Africa Digest recalls that Kwankwaso was earlier suspended by the Board Of Trustees for six months.
The suspensions, alongside others, were put to a voice vote by members of the party at its special general assembly, held at the Rockview Hotels in Apapa.
Business Africa Digest also recalls that at the end of the meeting in Lagos on Tuesday, Secretary of the BoT, Babayo Muhammed Abdulahi, accused Kwankwaso of hobnobbing with President Bola Tinubu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Mr. Peter Obi, without the board’s authorisation.
Abdullahi announced that Kwankwaso had been stripped of the NNPP national leader status by the board.
