Rufa’i Ahmed Alkali, national chairman of the New Nigeria
Peoples Party (NNPP), says the statement credited to Rabiu Kwankwaso,
presidential candidate of the party, was taken out of context.
On Saturday, Kwankwaso said he was offering Peter Obi,
presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), a “golden opportunity” to be
his running mate.
“Even if my friend [Peter Obi] wants to accept the
vice-presidential candidate, some people in the south-east will not accept,
that is not strategic,” he had said.
“This is a golden opportunity, if they lose it, it will be a
disaster.”
In a statement on Tuesday, Alkali said the NNPP does not
look down on any part of the country for any reason.
“Dr. Mohammed Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, while inaugurating the
Party’s Gombe State Executive last week, was quoted to have said that the South
East (Igbo People) are good in business but at the bottom of politics in
Nigeria,” the NNPP chairman said.
“The said attribution is said to have generated some ill
feelings in some political circles in Nigeria, especially between the South
East and the NNPP.
“However, as a party that is desirous to change the
situation of the country, we believe that no Nigerian of any geopolitical zone,
tribe, ethnic nationality, or religious persuasion is least on the rung of the
ladder in the whole effort to bring the desired change in the country.
“The NNPP wishes to categorically state the statement of its
presidential candidate Senator Kwankwaso at the occasion was situated out of
contest, as the NNPP Presidential candidate has always emphasized that the
Igbos were frontrunners in the fight for the nation’s struggle for
independence, and had produced the first President of the country in the person
of late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of the Senate, Dr. Nwafor
Orizu, former Vice President, late Dr. Alex Ekwueme, four former Presidents of
the Senate from 1999 to date and other top political office holders.
“NNPP as a political party on the ballot in 2023 believes
that it has what it takes like some other political parties to rejuvenate the
present situation of the country and will not in any way disparage any zone or
people of any political party.”
The chairman said his party desires the votes of all Nigerians.
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