‘We will not give automatic presidential ticket to any aspirant’ — NNPP

The Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam, has said the enactment volition not springiness an automatic statesmanlike summons to immoderate aspirant up of the 2027 wide elections.

Aniebonam, successful a connection issued connected Wednesday successful Lagos, said each aspirant seeking the party’s statesmanlike summons would acquisition a thorough screening process to measure competence, loyalty and electoral strength.

He said the determination was informed by the party’s acquisition successful the 2023 statesmanlike election.

The NNPP chieftain said the enactment would not repetition what it described arsenic the mistake of the 2023 election, stressing that its eventual statesmanlike campaigner would look done a rigorous screening process alternatively than an automatic ticket.

He added that each aspirants would beryllium assessed based connected their competence, electoral spot and loyalty to the party.

“We person already identified 3 superior statesmanlike aspirants, and aft the screening process, 1 of them volition look arsenic our emblem bearer. In enactment with INEC’s guidelines, we person uploaded a placeholder statesmanlike campaigner connected the commission’s portal pending the completion of the process,” Aniebonam said.

Aniebonam blamed the party’s delayed preparations for the 2027 elections connected prolonged litigation and interior disputes involving the party’s 2023 statesmanlike candidate, Senator R...