A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Buba Galadima, has described the suspension of the party’s presidential candidate in the February 25 presidential election, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, as ‘Nollywood jokes’
The PUNCH reports that the party’s BoT on Tuesday suspended Kwankwaso alongside the National Working Committee members for alleged anti-party activities.
Galadima while reacting to the development during Channels Television’s Politics Today on Tuesday, said the party’s National Executive Committee in its meeting in Abuja only expelled the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Major Gabriel Agbo, and those involved in the flagbearer’s sanction.
Galadima explained that the parallel meeting of some members of the party in Lagos where Kwankwaso was purportedly suspended was illegal saying they didn’t seek the permission of the Independent National Electoral Commission which was supposed to be present in such a meeting.
He said, “All of them that were expelled were called to face a disciplinary committee and they were drilled and accepted their sins. It is on this basis that they were recommended to the National Working Committee for expulsion.
”They knew that 20 days ago today (Tuesday), we wrote to INEC that we are holding a National Executive Committee meeting of the NNPP because you have to invite them. They knew we were meeting today.
“So they knew the NEC would expel them and that is why they staged a counter-coup with seven of them congregated in Lagos to say that they had suspended Kwankwaso”
