With only three weeks till the general election, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), has suffered another blow after the party’s chairman in Gombe State defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to news reports, the NNPP Gombe State Chairman, Maikano Umar, defected to the ruling APC in the state on Friday.
Umar was said to have announced his defection when he paid a visit to the state governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, at his residence on Friday.
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According to news reports, some executives of the party in Zamfara State switched to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week.
According to reports, the NNPP’s Northeast Zonal Secretary and member of Kwankwaso’s council, Babayo Liman, together with 17 local government executives, defected to the PDP.
This comes as Liman revealed the current development during a media briefing at the NUJ Secretariat in Damaturu.
He stated that he was quitting from his position in order to join the PDP and support its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, because the NNPP has no structure in the zone.
The former NNPP council member claimed the party lacked a robust party structure to deal with the party’s multiple internal conflicts at state chapters as well as the forthcoming general elections.
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Liman, who stated that the foregoing were some of the reasons he and other officials quit the party, also stated that the party was embroiled in a dispute in Bauchi that had lasted more than five months without resolution.
He argued that if the party is unable to handle a conflict within a chapter in five months, what can it offer Nigerians?
Liman revealed that five NNPP national officials have defected to the PDP in the northeast alongside him, including the National Treasurer from Bauchi, Alhaji Shehu Barau, the National zonal women leader, Hajiya Halima Tafawa Balewa, and the zone’s public relations officer, Ibrahim Tal.
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