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2023: Another Setback For Kwankwaso, As Campaign Council Member, Other Executives Dumps NNPP For PDP

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With barely a month to the forthcoming general election, the presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso has experienced another setback as some executives of the party have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Naija News reports that NNPP’s Northeast Zonal Secretary and member of Kwankwaso’s council Babayo Liman, alongside 17 local government executives, have dumped the party for the PDP.

This is as Liman disclosed the recent development at a media briefing held at NUJ Secretariat in Damaturu.

According to him, he was resigning his appointment to join the PDP to support its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar because the NNPP has no structure in the zone.

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The former NNPP council member alleged the party lacks a vibrant party structure to confront the numerous internal crises at state chapters of the party and also to face the upcoming general elections.

Liman, who pointed out that the above were some of the reasons he and other executives left the party advanced that the party had a crisis in Bauchi which last more than five months without being resolved.

He submitted that if the party can not resolve a crisis within a chapter in five months, what then can they offer Nigerians?

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Liman disclosed that five national executives of the NNPP have also defected to PDP in the northeast with him and they include the National treasurer from Bauchi, Alhaji Shehu Barau, National zonal women leader, Hajiya Halima Tafawa Balewa, public relations officer of the zone, Ibrahim Tal.

He said “NNPP has no structure at all. What are they going to bring to Nigerians? The party (NNPP) had a problem in Bauchi State which lasted for more than five months without resolution.

“So, if Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso cannot resolve a problem in a particular party in five months, we see no reason why we cannot defect from the party.”

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The decampees were positive that if Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is elected as Nigeria’s next president, he will assist in addressing the issues of insecurity ravaging various parts of the country.