Kwankwaso’s NNPP welcomes merger with Atiku
The New Nigeria Political Party has welcomed the proposed plan to merge with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The party came to limelight when it fielded Mr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, an ex governor of Kano State for the 2023 presidential election.
The PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar had proposed having a merger with the NNPP and the Labour Party. The latter has outright rejected the proposal. But the NNPP, which currently controls Kano State, says it welcomes the plan.
Speaking at a press conference on behalf of the National Working Committee of the party, on Tuesday in Abuja, the acting National Chairman , Abba Ali, said, “Our party, without any iota of doubt, is open to collaboration, alliance and any arrangement with any of or all the political parties including PDP, Labour Party, and APC, so long as such collaboration, alliance or arrangement will be in the utmost interest of the Nigerian people and the protection and consolidation of Nigeria’s democracy.
“At the moment, we are studying the mood of the country and the political atmosphere. NNPP will welcome from any political party any initiative and oblige any invitation towards discussing any arrangement, aimed at protecting our people, our democracy and towards the much desired accelerated and sustainable development of our country.
“The NNPP sees this call from Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as patriotic and a welcome development for which we unreservedly commend him. The NNPP, however, has modifications to that collaboration being proposed by Atiku Abubakar. It is our belief that such an arrangement should be all-encompassing and broad.”
The ex vice president had also raised an alarm that Nigeria was tilting towards a one-party state. Hence, he called for a merger to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress just as the APC did to remove PDP from power in 2015.
Ali continued, “The former Vice President’s call, our party notes that this was the same bold initiative which the opposition parties signed up to in 2015 and which enabled the merger that led to the defeat of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party. To that extent, the NNPP is reiterating its position that the former Vice President’s latest call is a proposal we applaud wholeheartedly.”
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