Choosing Kwankwaso as Obi’s running mate ‘a gross mistake’ – NNPP tells NDC

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has criticised the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) implicit its determination to prime Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso arsenic the moving mate to its statesmanlike candidate, Peter Obi, saying the prime was a gross mistake.

In a connection issued connected Monday, the NNPP’s National Secretary-General, Mr Ogini Olaposi, alleged that Kwankwaso’s behaviour aft contesting the 2023 statesmanlike predetermination connected the NNPP level showed that helium could yet betray the NDC.

According to the statement, the enactment claimed that Kwankwaso’s governmental past should person been considered earlier helium was chosen arsenic Obi’s vice-presidential campaigner for the 2027 election.

Olaposi argued that the NNPP gave Kwankwaso a escaped statesmanlike summons successful 2023, which helium said helped rise his nationalist governmental illustration earlier helium allegedly turned against the party.

“Kwankwaso dragged a enactment that brought him to the limelight successful the statesmanlike contest, freely gave him a level and did each it could to enactment him. Once a betrayer, ever a betrayer, and posterity volition beryllium america right,” helium said.

“Kwankwaso’s actions contributed to the situation successful our enactment and caused galore of our members to leave.”

The connection besides rejected claims that the enactment was handed implicit to Kwankwaso by its founder, Dr Boniface Aniebonam.

He described the assertion that the NNPP was handed implicit to...