The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) National Executive Committee (NEC) has dissolved its state and national executives and constituted a caretaker committee to run the affairs of the party for one month.
The party said the dissolution of the national and state executives was part of the move to reposition it ahead of 2023 general elections.
Party sources however said the dissolution was aimed at paving the way for the former governor of Kano State, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso’s men to take strategic positions within the hierarchy.
The party said new officers would be elected during the national convention.
On Tuesday, the party’s national secretary Mr Agbo Major, told newsmen in Abuja that the former governor of Kano State, Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was bringing his entire political structures into the party.
He said there was need for the party to adjust to be able to accommodate the interests that were coming, adding that such crucial decisions to be taken at the meeting would midwife the party’s national convention.
Kwankwaso had last week launched a political group known as the The National Movement (TNM).
The former governor told BBC in an interview that he would announce his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before the end of March.
He said, “I didn’t see anything that either APC or PDP will show or tell Nigerians to get convinced and vote for them in the coming 2023 elections.”
“So I think people should now come to think of the right party and people to support and vote for so that we can rescue the present situation.
“In 2015, we gave the leadership of the state to some, thinking that they will make it, but not knowing that it won’t yield any positive outcome. That is why we are back to rescue our state,” Kwankwaso had said.
