Ajuji Ahmed, the national chairman of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), says a faction led by Boniface Aniebonam, the founder of the party, is illegal.
In a statement on Tuesday, Robert Hon, the legal adviser, and Ladipo Johnson, national publicity secretary of the NNPP, said Aniebonam and his cohort have been expelled from the party.
The statement said the court judgment that purportedly recognised the Aniebonam’s faction was “fraudulently obtained and liable to be set aside”.
“We wish to use this opportunity to put the records straight so as to clear the air on the misleading propaganda of some sponsored impostors who are bent on destabilising our great party for their paymasters, falsely claiming in the media space that they have taken over the leadership of our great party,” the statement reads.
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“That is wishful thinking, and nothing can be further from the truth than that. The issue of leadership of the party is strictly a constitutional matter based on the extant statutes and regulations.
“The judgment purportedly obtained by Dr Aniebonam and his group at Abia State High Court Uzuakoli is a ruse and is without substance. It is a pyrrhic “victory” and confers nothing to Chief Aniebonam and his co-travellers.
“The judgment is a default judgment that was obtained by fraud and therefore liable to be set aside, which process of setting the same aside has already commenced.
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“We emphasise that the judgment being paraded by the impostors is a pyrrhic victory that confers nothing but an empty shell because the orders of courts cannot confer rights or powers over something that does not exist in law in the first place.
“The party with a symbol or logo of a basket of fruits for which Chief Aniebonam and his allies approached the high court of Abia state, Uzuakoli, and purportedly got orders of the said court to take over its affairs is not a registered political party in Nigeria and does not exist on the INEC register or website and therefore is unknown to law and is radically different from our New Nigeria Peoples Party, whose symbol and logo is an academic cap and a book sandwiched between the colours of RED WHITE RED and conspicuously registered as No. 12 on the INEC website among the other 19 registered political parties in Nigeria.
“This is the only recognised symbol and logo of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) registered with the Independent National Electoral Commission in compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and the Electoral Act, 2024.”
Earlier this year, Boniface Aniebonam, the founder of NNPP, accused Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano, of trying to hijack the party.
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