Kwankwaso expelled for trying to take over of NNPP’s – Agbo Major

Agbo Major, a NNPP official, has stated that Rabiu Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 election, has been lawfully expelled.

The decision to expel Kwankwaso, according to Major, resulted from an alleged attempt by the former governor of Kano State and his followers to seize control of the party from its original founders.

Major maintains that the expulsion was necessary to protect the party’s integrity and prevent Kwankwaso and his loyalists from taking power.

“The entire concept was okay, this man (founder) is a good man, he listens, and so on and so forth, so let us dominate him and take over the party.” That’s what they wanted, but they found in us the determination to make sure it didn’t happen,” Major said on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

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He added that Kwankwaso’s side joined the party the previous year as part of a deal that permitted them to run in the 2023 elections.

“They joined us for the election last year.” They joined us on the basis of a memorandum of understanding, which granted them the right to run for various elective seats in the 2023 general election.

“That MoU explicitly stated that at the end of the election, they could go their way, or we come back again to redesign that marriage and see if we will be able to continue or not, but when we saw their activities, we discovered that there is no way the marriage is going to continue, we had to ask them to go, and that is the situation now,” he added.

Following the end of the 2023 elections, the NNPP has been involved in a crisis, with internal party factions resorting to tactics such as suspensions and expulsions against one another.

The Agbo Major faction consists mostly of long-standing party members, whilst the opposing camp consists of persons connected with Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate.