Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, has said that Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State did not resign from the party but from the Kwankwasiya Movement, led by Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Aniebonam made the clarification on Saturday in a swift reaction to the governor’s reported resignation from the NNPP, which was widely circulated in the media.
In a statement, he argued that the resignation letter from the governor was not addressed to the authentic NNPP National Working Committee (NWC) led by Dr. Major Agbo, nor to the state chairman or ward secretary, but to a member of the Kwankwasiya Movement in Diso-Chiranchi Ward, Gwale Local Government Area of Kano State.
“The NNPP NWC does not recognise the Kwankwasiya Movement ward chairman as chairman of the party,” Aniebonam said.
The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that the Kano State governor was reported to have resigned from the NNPP, alongside 21 members of the State House of Assembly, eight members of the House of Representatives, and 44 local government chairmen in the state.
The resignation was disclosed in a statement issued on Friday by the governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Tofa.
Yusuf, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of Diso-Chiranchi Ward of the NNPP in Gwale Local Government Area, formally communicated his decision to leave the party with effect from Friday, January 23.
