The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), and the Kwankwasiya Movement, have dismissed plans to occupy the Supreme Court and Foreign Missions in Nigeria, ahead of the Kano State governorship ruling.
The party had lost the Kano State Election Petition Tribunal and the Appeal Court judgements to the All Progressives Congress (APC), which had contested the legality of Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf taking part in the contest.
A Coalition of Civil Society Organizations For Democracy, had claimed that the NNPP and the Kwankwasiya Movement had perfected the claim that the embattled party was planning to occupy the Apex Court.
But NNPP’s National Chairman, Abba Kawu Ali, in a statement on Friday, said the allegation was a figment of the “fertile imagination of the ill-conceived Coalition of Civil Society Organizations For Democracy and its sponsors, the All Progressives Congress (APC).”
Ali said the allegations by the so called coalition was laughable and showed the extent the opposition in Kano State would go to fabricate lies in its desperation to seize power by all means.
He said: “APC Knows that it has no case at the Supreme Court and has resorted to blackmail, intimidation, and falsehood to hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public, the Judiciary and Security Agencies with a view to stealing the mandate the good people of Kano State freely gave to the New Nigeria People’s Party NNPP.
“NNPP has Confidence in the Nation’s Judiciary as the temple of Justice and bastion of hope for aggrieved citizens which on Thursday 7th December 2023 Dismissed Suit No FHC/AWK/CS/150/2023 NNPP & 5 ORS VS RABIU MUSA KWANKWASO and 10 ORS at the Federal High Court Awka Anambra State instituted by expelled members of the Party allied with and sponsored by the APC claiming it had opted out of the MOU NNPP signed with the Kwankwasiya Movement and The National Movement TNM, Allegation of Corruption, Suspension/ Expulsion of Party Leaders. Justice N. O DINGBA dismissed the suit for lacking merit.
“Irked by the Federal High Court Judgement of The 7th December, 2023, APC has intensified its sponsorship of Expelled Agbo Major’s libelous advertisements in National Newspapers and unknown coalition to disparage our Great Party with a fallacious assumption of stealing a match against the party at the Apex Court.
“As a law-abiding political party, the NNPP is resolute and strongly determined to protect and defend it’s mandate across the country and will resist any attempt to subvert the will of the people.
“The ballot is sacred; the mandate of the people is not negotiable and definitely not for sale.
“NNPP will continue to provide good governance and uphold Democratic ethics, ethos, and ideals in our quest for a strong, virile, progressive, and just Democratic nation.”
