The National Chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Prof. Ahmed Rufai Alkali, has said the party’s presidential candidate, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, will not attend any event that is already compromised before its commencement.
Alkali also said the NNPP had set up a Peace and Reconciliation Committee to intervene in the crisis rocking the Southwest chapter of the party.
The NNPP national chairman was giving reasons for Kwakwanso’s absence at the Northern Elders’/Leaders’ parley with top presidential candidates in the 2023 general election.
He said the party’s national leadership had decided to intervene in the crisis rocking the Southwest chapter and resolved to bring back all members who were suspended for various allegations.
Alkali urged the warring factions to eschew bitterness and unite for the progress of the party.
He said: “The attention of NNPP has been drawn to some misunderstanding among the leaders of our party in the Southwest, leading to suspension of some zonal and state executives.
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“However, the leadership of the party has resolved that all feuding parties should eschew bitterness and embrace peace for the sake of the greater good of the party; that the suspension of the executive members has been reversed to status quo ante bellum.
“That the National Working Committee (NWC) has set up a Peace and Reconciliation Committee to immediately meet with all the aggrieved parties at Lagos to listen to their grievances and amicably resolve the differences.
“The leadership of the NNPP is using this medium to call on all its members, particularly in the Southwest, to remain calm as all their grievances will be properly addressed to bring everlasting peace and harmonious relationship among members of the NNPP family.”
The NNPP national chairman said the party will soon release the timetable for its campaign, which will take Kwankwaso to all the nooks and corners of the country.
He said: “One incontrovertible fact is that His Excellency, Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, is the best and the most qualified among those contesting for the number one position in the country. His performance in all the positions he has held is second to none.
“He is ready to replicate all the past achievements at the Presidency level, if elected into office in 2023. In Education, Health, Housing, Human Capital Development sectors: he has made indelible marks in all these areas and many more. His records speak for him. This is the icon that the NNPP is offering Nigeria.
“We promise to run an issue-based campaign. We are not going to engage in abuses. Our supporters all over the country are under instruction not to engage in negative campaigns or violence.
“We will adhere strictly to the words and letters of the Peace Accord signed last month. But we call on others not to take us for granted and try to undermine our campaign activities.”