2023: NNPP Responds To Reports Of Endorsing Tinubu

The Osun State Chapter of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) has refuted reports that it has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.

The denial was made by the Caretaker Chairman of the party in the state, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdullateef, at a news conference on Saturday in Osogbo.

Urging Nigerians to disregard the claim, he stated that four members of the party who purportedly endorsed the APC presidential candidate were “on their own.”

Abdullateef disclosed that the only presidential candidate known to the NNPP is Rabiu Kwankwaso.

“We in the Osun NNPP want to reaffirm our support for His Excellency, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the Presidential Candidate of NNPP.

“He is the most qualified of all the presidential candidates in Nigeria, in terms of education, work experience,  political maturity and closeness to the grassroots", he said.

Speaking further, he added: "It may interest the world to know that the leadership of NNPP at the National level has decided to put a stop to this betrayal habit, resulting in the change of the State leadership in Osun State.

“The after effect of the change was the show of shame by four candidates of the party, who purportedly endorsed another presidential candidate as witnessed.

“If candidates of a political party endorse the presidential candidate of another party while still holding on to the mandates of NNPP, their action did not come to us as a surprise.

“Once again, we outrightly dissociate Osun NNPP from people of unstable credentials and anti-party characters.

“As for the genuine members of the party in the state, we further affirm that all  candidates of NNPP in Osun State are working towards success at the 2023 polls."