2023: Secretary, Youth Leader, Others Dump LP For NNPP In Ebonyi

Some aggrieved executive members of the Ebonyi State chapter of the Labour Party,(LP) have dumped the party for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

Naija News understands that the defection was because of some crisis in the LP concerning the running of party affairs by the party’s leadership.

Among the 14 that were said to have decamped from the Labour Party were the state secretary of the party, the youth and women leader and other executive members.

The NNPP gubernatorial candidate in the state, Prophet Chris Adol-Awam disclosed this during a town hall meeting the party held at Abakaliki the state capital.

While addressing the NNPP national leadership, including the presidential candidate of the party, Musa Kwankwaso at the meeting, Adol-Awam welcomed the decampees to their midst.

He said “we are very proud of the NNPP Presidential candidate, Kwankwaso. And, we believe that he will win the forthcoming general election as the next President of Nigeria. He has the capacity to transform Nigeria.

“The members of the Labour Party are here with us and they want to work with us. The secretary, youths and women leaders have identified with us, not as spectators but as trusted and reliable members.”

Naija News also gathered that the NNPP presidential hopeful received them into the party.

Meanwhile, Naija News reported earlier that Kwankwaso has said he left both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he was angry with the political system.

Kwankwaso stated this on Sunday in Abuja at a town hall meeting organised by Arise Television and the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) for presidential candidates.

The presidential candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said he left both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because he was angry with the political system.

Kwankwaso stated this on Sunday in Abuja at a town hall meeting organised by Arise Television and the Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) for presidential candidates.

The former Kano State governor said the political system has failed and that is why he decided to join the NNPP in order to create a new path for the country.

He said: “I’m also angry with the system like every other Nigerian and it is because of those reasons that some of us are angry to the extent of leaving the PDP and the APC because we feel there are better ways of doing things in this country.

“We believe the system has failed and that is why we have decided to go to New Nigeria Peoples Party, the unscathed party in this country.”