NNPP probes account of N1bn raised from sale of forms

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has been plagued by a leadership crisis, and on Sunday the party’s new leadership under Dr. Agbo Gilbert Major decided to investigate the possible mismanagement of over N1 billion raised from the sale of forms to aspirants in the 2023 general elections.

While outlining its plans to restructure its structures at all levels nationally in the coming days and weeks, the new leadership also called for written complaints from unhappy candidates who were shortchanged after paying for forms into the party’s account.

Acting National Publicity Secretary Abdulsalam Abdulrasaq released a statement to the media detailing this resolution after a first meeting on Sunday at the Abuja National Secretariat.

The party has decided to form a committee to investigate the rationale behind moving the Situation Room to the home of the presidential candidate.

The statement said that the environment encouraged widespread corruption and manipulation, which ultimately led to the imposition of candidates.

Abdulrasaq continued, saying that the party had withdrawn from the MoU it had signed with the Kwankwasiya Movement and The National Movement, TNM, since the principles of those two groups were incompatible with the party’s policies of openness and inclusivity.

According to Abdulrasaq, the party has decided to investigate why other presidential hopefuls were denied the opportunity to buy nomination forms and take part in the primary election that it claims illegally produced Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

He also urged the party’s many members and supporters to maintain composure in the face of what he called the “brazen assault of the Kwankwasiya movement,” whose members had been mislead to believe they had been sold the party.

After reviewing the circumstances brought on by the severe mismanagement of the party over the previous year, the new leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) under Dr. Agbo Gilbert Major came out with the following resolutions at the party’s first meeting today at the Abuja National Secretariat:

To investigate in detail the possible misuse of more than N1b, or over a billion Nigerian naira, collected from the selling of forms to aspirants between March 2022 and the present. The assembly decided to ask the right security services to investigate the party’s finances so that the presidential candidate, the former chairman, the former acting chairman, and the National Secretary could be called to account. “This is to restore confidence of party members/candidates who came forward with their own money to purchase forms,” the statement stated in part.