Kano NNPP: Abba Yusuf, Kwankwaso not suspended from party

Hashimu Dungurawa, chair of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Kano, says Abba Yusuf, governor of the state, and Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former senator, have not been suspended from the party.

Dungurawa was reacting to the reported suspension of the duo from the party.

Last week, a communique signed by Umar Jibrin and Johnson Omolara said the national executive council (NEC) of the party upheld the suspension of both men.

The communique said the governor was suspended in February “for insubordination to the party authority”.

But the Kano NNPP chair said the people who signed the communique have since been expelled from the party for alleged anti-party activities.

“Let me be clear to you that these people who said they have suspended Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf and Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso were long ago expelled from the party for several anti-party activities and connivance with opposition to create problems in the NNPP,” he said.

“You can see that there is a missing link in their actions and the missing link is that as a party that has only one single governor and the presidential candidate of the party, who nurtured it to its present position, but you are saying you suspended them.

“Can this make any sense to anybody?

“Those in opposition who are afraid of the emergence of Kwankwaso as the next president of Nigeria, in 2027, God willing [are behind this act].”