In a move that may become easily controversial the NNPP Board of Trustees has announced the suspension of its Presidential candidate Engr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
NNPP is a party that gained national prominence with Kwankwanso as it’s leader and main driving force and this makes his suspension by the board a potentially curious development according to political observers of the party due to anti-party activities.
The NNPP National Working Committee (NWC) had also taken the decision to suspend two prominent members, Boniface Aniebonam, a founding member of the party, and Agbo Major, its National Publicity Secretary last week.
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The suspension comes of the heels of numerous meetings between Kwankwaso and President Tinubu. With Kwankwaso rumoured to be seeking a role in Tinubu’s administration.
In May, Kwankwaso flew to Paris to see Tinubu who was on a private visit to France. In June, Kwankwaso paid a visit to Tinubu at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Also on the 24th of August, Kwankwaso paid yet another visit to Tinubu to discuss “issues of national interest.”
That visit seems to have been the final straw that broke the camels back, with the NNPP announcing Kwakwaso’s suspension on the 29th of August.
In reaction to the development, commentators on social media hailed the party for making the bold decision while deriding the PDP for its inability to rein in party member and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike over his over anti-party activities.
Here are some reactions gathered by QUEST TIMES
@MrOdanz NNPP suspends Kwankwaso for anti-party activities. Then there is PDP still clueless, useless, impotent while members of their party are dancing inside inside Tinubu’s pocket and making mockery of the party while at it. God forbid.
@Waspapping__ NNPP has suspended their National leader and Presidential Candidate of the party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso for six months for alleged anti-party activities. I don’t know what they’re smoking to have suspended the man that made the party relevant in the first place.
@mrlurvy Board of Trustees of the NNPP just suspended Rabiu Kwankwaso for six months due to anti-party activities. NNPP has shown itself as a party with balls. They cannot stand a party member, regardless of how highly placed, holding the party to ransom. What PDP cannot do to Minister Wike and the G5 Governors. NNPP doing it easily.
@A__yabo NNPP suspending Rabiu Kwankwaso for six months is evidence enough to show you they are a serious party. They are showing the world that there is no one above the party and they have every reason to, considering how they helped Kwankwaso and Abba won the last Kano elections, something they failed to do before they join the party. I’m waiting for PDP to do the same with Wike and the rest.
@jibreelkhalil NNPP suspending Kwankwaso is the best decision to have ever taken by a serious political party, no serious party will tolerate seeing their presidential aspirant— the highest political rank, involving in an alleged romance with other political candidates. It’s a slap on the face of the party. The board of trustees has done the right thing. He is not bigger than the party.
