The Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, said on Saturday that the Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, did not resign from the party but from the Kwankwasiya Movement.
The Kwankwasiya Movement is led by former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso.
Aniebonam made the clarification in a swift reaction to the governor’s resignation from the party.
Aniebonam, in a statement, argued that the resignation letter from the governor was not addressed to the authentic National Working Committee (NWC) of NNPP led by Dr. Major Agbo, nor the state chairman or the ward secretary.
He claimed that the letter was sent to a member of the Kwankwasiya movement in Diso-Chiranchi Ward in Gwale Local Government Area of the state.
“The NNPP NWC does not recognise the Kwankwasiya movement ward chairman as chairman of the party,” he said.
Yusuf was said to have resigned from the NNPP, alongside 21 members of the State House of Assembly, eight members of the House of Representatives and 44 local government chairmen in the state.
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The resignation was announced in a statement issued on Friday by the governor’s media aide, Sunusi Tofa.
Yusuf, in a letter addressed to the Chairman of Diso-Chiranchi Ward of the NNPP in Gwale Local Government Area, formally communicated his decision to leave the party with effect from Friday.
“I write with a deep sense of gratitude to formally notify the leadership of the New Nigeria People’s Party of my decision to resign my membership of the party, with effect from Friday, 23rd January 2026,” the governor stated.
Aniebonam, however, claimed the resignation of Yusuf and other political office holders of the party is not known to him as NNPP leader, founder and Chairman of its Board of Trustees.
“The NNPP lifted the governor’s suspension from its membership and directed that he took responsibility of its leadership, being the highest elected officer of the party.
“You will recall that the Abia State High Court and Federal Capital Territory High Court judgment directed INEC to recognise and handover NNPP administration to the Aniebonam-led board of trustees of the party.
” The Federal Capital Territory High Court equally issued an enrolment order, restraining INEC from dealing and transacting any business with the Kwankwasiya movement,” he noted.
He said the NNPP is a registered political party, while the Kwankwasiya movement is a pressure group in the party.
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