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Presidency Tells Opposition To Stop Lamenting Over 2026 Electoral Act, Urges ADC, NNPP To Fix Party Challenges

NewsDeskNgFeb 28, 2026February 28, 20260

Presidency warns opposition against unwarranted outrage over Electoral Act, advises ADC and NNPP leaders to introspect. Presidency on Thursday formally reacted to opposition parties’ frequent lampooning of the provisions of the 2026 Electoral Act and the All Progressives Congress (APC) government at the centre. In a release issued by presidential...

Gov. Abba Yusuf – I’ve no rift with Kwankwaso

NewsDeskNgNov 8, 2024November 8, 20240

Governor Abba Yusuf of Kano State says he has no rift with his political mentor and leader of the Kwankwasiyya movement, Rabiu Kwankwaso. Yusuf made this clarification while interacting with newsmen, addressing speculations and rumours of discord with Kwankwaso. He insisted that his relationship with the 2023 presidential candidate of...

NNPP members disown Kwankwaso as party leader

NewsDeskNgOct 14, 2024October 14, 20240

Some factional members of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, have disowned Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso as the party leader. Leading the anti-Kwankwasiya campaign at the party secretariat in Minna, Niger State, the factional National Chairman of the party, Dr. Gilbert Agbo, said Kwankwaso and his Kwankwasiya group were threats...

NNPP Crisis – Gov Yusuf moves to reconcile with NASS members, others

NewsDeskNgOct 9, 2024October 9, 20240

In what appears to be a move to mend his fractured relationship with leaders of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, in Kano, Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has met with aggrieved National Assembly members of the party in Abuja. The meeting, according to the governor who posted on his...

Kwankwaso tackles Tinubu for ignoring Kano gov, handing palliatives to APC stalwarts

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

The national leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso has called out the President Bola Tinubu-led federal government for handing over the distribution of rice palliatives in Kano State to an All Progressives Congress, APC stalwart. The former presidential candidate of the NNPP stated this in a...

You’re inconsequential, struggling to control NNPP – PDP fires back at Kwankwaso

NewsDeskNgSep 9, 2024September 9, 20240

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has described the 2023 New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwaso as inconsequential in Nigeria’s political sphere. PDP spokesman, Debo Ologunagba, said Kwankwaso is struggling to lead the NNPP which controls only Kano State in Nigeria. Responding to Kwankwaso’s comment that PDP is...

EFCC’s failure to file processes stalls Kwankwaso’s rights enforcement suit

NewsDeskNgJul 23, 2024July 23, 20240

The inability of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to file processes before a Kano High Court on Tuesday stalled hearing in a fundamental rights suit filed by the 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso and seven others. The other applicants are the...

Court order you procured too weak to protect you – Oginni blasts Kwankwaso

NewsDeskNgJun 13, 2024June 13, 20240

The National Secretary of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Oginni Olaposi Sunday, has told the party’s Presidential candidate in the 2023 general election, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso that the court order he procured is too weak to protect him from EFCC’s invitation, arrest and prosecution. Oginni, who made this statement...

Ondo NNPP governorship candidate withdraws from race

NewsDeskNgJun 5, 2024June 5, 20240

Mr Israel Ayeni, the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP governorship candidate in the November 16 election in Ondo State, has withdrawn from the race. Ayeni got the party’s ticket by polling 100 votes to defeat his sole rival, Prof. Ibrahim Ajagunna, at the party’s primary on April 26. Ayeni, in...

NNPP governorship candidate warns against money politics in Kaduna

NewsDeskNgMar 4, 2023March 4, 20230

Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, the governorship candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party in Kaduna State, has advised residents of the state to reject voting for any politician that will try to buy their conscience in the forthcoming governorship election. Speaking to newsmen in Kaduna on Saturday on what he termed,...