Niger NNPP Crisis: Anti-Kwakwanso Group Stops Caretaker Committee from Accessing Secretariat

Laleye Dipo in Minna

The crisis plaguing the New Nigeria Peoples Party  (NNPP) has deepened, following the refusal of the anti-Rabiu Kwankwaso elements of the party in Niger state to allow the caretaker committee to access the party’s secretariat.

The Mamman Damisa-led state executive has also repainted the state secretariat of the party and is set to print its new logo on the walls of the office and its fence, it was learnt.

Besides, the  Damisa committee also declared as illegal the caretaker committee set up by the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, insisting that his own team remains the only body legally recognised by the constitution.

“We are not recognising any caretaker or working  committee. The constitution of our party empowers the Board of Trustees (BOT) to reinstate us which has been done,”  he added.

The August 14 letter which reinstated the state leadership of the party, was signed by Dr Boniface Aniebonam and was made available to THISDAY.

He further stated that his group was only loyal to the Agbor Major national leadership, insisting that his they were waiting for a court decision before putting its new logo on the walls of its offices and fences.

A national leader of the party, Abdulhamid Danladi, reacting to the development, accused some members of the party of pursuing personal interests to the detriment of the overall interest of the party.

Danladi accused some members of the party in the state of taking actions that  compromised the 2023 general elections.

Danladi who lost the senatorial election for Niger North Senatorial zone said that the party had started to rebuild ahead of the next election.