By Ezeocha Nzeh
The national leadership of opposition Mew Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has sued for peace among the warring faction in the party’s South West zonal executive
The NNPP stated while addressing the media on Monday on the development in the party, that it has noted some misunderstandings among the leaders of the party in the South West zone, leading to suspension of some zonal and state Executives.
Addressing the media at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, National chairman of the NNPP, professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, said the leadership of the party has resolved that all feuding parties should eschew bitterness and embrace peace for the sake of the greater good of the party, adding that the suspension of the Executive members has been reversed to status quo ante bellum.
“That the National Working Committee has set up a peace and reconciliation Committee to immediately meet with all the aggrieved parties at Lagos to listen to their grievances and amicably resolve the differences.
*The leadership of the NNPP is using this medium to call on all its members particularly in the South West to remain calm as all their grievances will be properly addressed to bring everlasting peace and harmonious relationship among members of the NNPP”
The national chairman also disclosed that the party will soon release its Timetable for the campaign that will take its Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Sen. Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso to all the nooks and corners of the country.
According to him, “one incontrovertible fact is that His Excellency, Sen. Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is the best and the most qualified among those contesting for the number one position in the country. His performance in all the positions he had held is second to none.
“He is ready to replicate all the past achievements at the Presidency level if elected into office in 2023. Education, Health, Housing, Human) capital development. He had made indelible marks in all these areas and many more. His records speak for him. This is the icon that the NNPP is offering Nigeria.
“We promise to run an issue-based campaign. We are not going to engage in abuses. Our supporters all over the country are under instruction not to engage in negative campaign or violence. We will adhere strictly to the words and letters of the Peace Accord signed last month. But we call others not to take us for granted and try to undermine our campaign activities, ” Professor Alkali stated
