The National Working Committee of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has rejected the national convention that produced Agbo Major as the party’s National Chairman.
Major was elected as the NNPP national chairman at a national convention held at the RockView Hotel in the Apapa area of Lagos on Thursday.
Several other persons were elected into various positions in the party at the event.
However, the NNPP National Chairman, Dr. Ajuji Ahmed, said on Friday the party did not conduct any national convention or inaugurate a new National Working Committee (NWC) in Lagos State.
Ahmed, who is the leader of a faction of the NNPP loyal to the former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, spoke during a meeting between the NWC and NNPP members in the National Assembly led by Senator Rufa’i Hanga at the party national secretariat in Abuja.
He said the current NWC was constituted in 2022 under the supervision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The chairman stressed that there is only one NNPP under his leadership and one national headquarters located in Abuja known to law and the INEC.
Ahmed said: “We want to use this medium to inform and confirm to the world that the NNPP does not operate from Apapa; we did not hold any convention this year in any hotel lobby in Lagos.
“Visit the INEC website and confirm for yourselves that our party is never chaired by Dr. Agbo Major.
“Our NWC was inaugurated here in Abuja in April 2022 for a tenure of four years which ends in April 2026, and it is here in Abuja that our party is headquartered and operates from in accordance with the laws of the land.”
He stressed that Major and his group members parading themselves as NNPP leaders had been expelled from the party.
Ahmed said some members of the NNPP were subjected to proper disciplinary procedures and sanctioned after the 2023 general election.
“In November 2024, they took themselves to court in Abia State in the name of NNPP.
“Meanwhile, the Federal High Court, Abuja, as far back as April 2024 had ruled that as expelled former members of the party, they should stop parading themselves as NNPP members or leaders in any shape or form.
“The Federal High Court judgment of April 18, 2024, declared them as impostors, having been expelled by the party, and as such can neither sue in the name of the party nor against the party,’’ the chairman added.
