Battle For NNPP: You Are Ungrateful, Kano Reps Member Slams Kwakwanso After Declaring Support For Aniebonam

Kabiru Rurum, a member of the House of Representatives from Kano state has chided a former Governor of Kano state for trying to hijack the NNPP from Dr Boniface Aneibonam, its founder and Board of Trustees Chairman,

He said, the action of the former governor is at the center of the crisis rocking the party, stressing that he has decided to pitch his tent with the Aniebonam faction.

The federal lawmaker spoke few days after a court ruled on the leadership crisis rocking the party. The ruling is in favour of the Aniebonam faction.

Justice C.U. Okoroafor of the High Court in Abia, last week, affirmed that the NNPP is under the full control of Aniebonam leadership.

The magazine reports that the two NNPP gladiators, Kwakwanso and Aniebonam have clashed over the control of the party for months, with supporters of the party torn between both of them.

Aniebonam, the founder of the NNPP and its pioneer chairman has insisted that the former governor is trying to hijack the party from him, while the Kwankwanso faction says they are fully in control.

Their disagreement, on how the party should be run, became more vociferous after the NNPP won the Kano State governorship election last year, with Kwakwanso’s son inlaw, Governor Abba Yusuf in firm control.

The commercial city is the only state among 36 states in the country under the full control of the NNPP

Speaking on the crisis rocking the party, Rurum, a former Speaker of the State House of Assembly said the governor should detach himself from the apron string of the former governor, who he accused of trying to hijack the party for his selfish gains.

Rurum, on which faction of the party he belongs said, his loyalty is with Dr Aniebonam, who, according to him provided Kwakwanso the platform to contest the presidential election, but has now turned against his benefactor. This is not fair, the lawmaker chides the former governor, while reacting on Sunday.

“Dr. Boniface provided Kwankwaso with a platform, and it is wrong to take the party from him and treat him poorly,” Rurum said.