Crisis Brewing as Party Members Level Strong Allegations Against NNPP's Guber Candidate

• Top members of the New Nigerian Peoples Party have called for the sack of the 2023 governorship candidate of the party in Kaduna
• Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi was accused of engaging in some anti-party activities and secretly supporting the All Progressives Congress
• The party members also said that the lawmaker has continued to use his position to destroy the NNPP in Kaduna state for his selfish interest

Some members of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) have accused the Kaduna state governorship candidate of the party of secretly working for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The members of the party also called on the leadership of NNPP to immediately ensure the replacement of Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi as the governorship candidate in Kaduna.

According to the party members, Hunkuyi has been engaging in anti-party activities and high-handedness.

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The team who staged a protest at the NNPP's secretariat in the Kaduna state capital insisted that the party must replace Senator Hunkuyi with a better and uncompromising governorship candidate if the party must win the election in 2023.

Speaking on behalf of the members of the party, Abdullahi Adamu, cautioned that rather than being a unifier, Hunkuyi has continued to use his position to destroy the NNPP in Kaduna state for his selfish interest.

In his remarks, the chairman of the NNPP in Kaduna state, Ben Kure who received the aggrieved party members promised to look into the matter.

However, Senator Hunkuyi has denied the allegations levelled against him by the members of the NNPP.

He said that the allegations were borne out of mischief and ignorance of the internal workings of the party.

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Senator Ahmed Makarfi earlier alleged that the youths in Nigeria are using Peter Obi of the Labour Party out of frustration.

Makarfi called on Obi and his colleague with the New Nigerian Peoples Party Rabiu Kwankwaso to return to the Peoples Democratic Party.

According to the former governor of Kaduna state, other opposition parties need to work together to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

NNPP's chairman finally reveals why Peter Obi, Kwankwaso alliance never worked

The New Nigerian Peoples Party had said that the party was never given an option during its negotiation for an alliance with the Labour Party.

The disclosure was made on Sunday, August 28, by the chairman of the NNPP, Professor Rufai Alkali.

Alkali noted that the NNPP was desirous of keeping in contact with any party that shared the same values with it for an alliance.

Source: Legit.ng