Dr. Boniface Aniebonam, the Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has reiterated that it is the party’s divine time to provide the actual leadership that will be poised to create a new and better Nigeria.
The party leader made it clear that it was divine intervention that the current gale of defections into the party from other political parties in the country.
He told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos that Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State had ushered in high ranking and huge membership to the party in less than three months.
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According to him, it is the NNPP’s divine time to provide leadership that is poised to create a new Nigeria.
There had been a gale of defections into NNPP in Kano, Jigawa, Kaduna and other parts of the country. It has seen ten PDP lawmakers and three APC lawmakers in Kano recently defecting to the party while the deputy speaker, Kano State House of Assembly, Alhaji Zubairu Massu, also on Friday, defected from the APC to NNPP, alongside some other former lawmakers.
Also in Osun, a chieftain of APC, Mr Muslihudeen Adekilekun on Saturday said he had defected to the NNPP and similarly, Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje’s current Chief of Staff, Mr Ali Makoda, led other notable politicians in Kano North, to NNPP on Saturday.
Aniebonam said that in 21 years of its existence, the NNPP now has offices in all parts of the federation.
He said the party ”is gradually becoming a movement” and urged Nigerians to join the winning team.
“We are the beautiful bride in the North as it is and we hope to expand to all parts of Nigeria as the best option for Nigerians,” Aniebonam said.
He noted that, as a party with a divine mandate, NNPP would ensure that its primaries were fair to all, including the new entrants.