Kwankwaso Raps APC’s N100m Nomination Forms

• Endorses NNPP for Nigerians as party holds 1st NEC meeting
• We’re on Nigeria’s rescue mission – Prof Alkali

BY EDMOND ODOK – Despite the unprecedented rush for the All Progressives Congress (APC) N100 million Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms, former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso says Nigerians should reject the ruling party as it has nothing to offer them.

He said with the ruling party having inflicted pain and so much suffering on the citizens in almost eight years of its administration, it will be unfortunate to leave the country in the hands of unpatriotic elements and those engaging in trial and error Leadership.

According to Senator Kwankwaso, recently appointed as the National Leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Nigerians must dump the old and big-for-nothing parties and embrace NNPP which is set to bring about a breath of fresh air to the country’s body politic.

The former governor, who spoke as the party held its maiden National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Abuja at the weekend, said NNPP presents the needed alternative that seeks to make Nigeria a better place for everyone going forward.

Also referencing the APC that kept its presidential form at N100 million, the Leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement said NNPP made its forms very cheap and affordable for interested party members contest in the forthcoming primary elections.

He assured the Party’s supporters and well-wishers that NNPP would achieve great fortunes in next year’s general elections, adding; “Let me remind Nigerians that our forms are on sale for the states Assembly positions and other positions here in the national secretariat for those who want to contest elections.

“I want to encourage everybody to be like all of us here; to be people with the foresight of men and women in this country. This party is for all nationalists who believe in this country. We want everybody to go and register in their wards.”

Addressing the NEC members, NNPP’s National Chairman, Professor Rufai Alkali said the position bestows on them lots of responsibilities and trust they must uphold at all times, saying; “We must work very closely together to fulfill the manifest destiny of our great party and the nation.”

He said that bouncing into the reckoning within Nigeria’s political space at the most decisive and challenging period of the nation’s history, the NNPP is committed to the emancipation of women and the Youth who over the years have been taken for granted.

With a pledge that the party is determined to bring about and sustain lasting and enduring peace and tranquillity nationwide, Prof Alkali said; “I say decisive because Nigerians for too long have been waiting for a political Party to salvage the Nation, to rescue our people from the visionless and directionless political elites that have abandoned the fundamental principles and grown norms of democratic governance.

“It appears to us most of the political elites have forgotten the past and do not look at the future beyond their noses. Gradually but systematically our great country Nigeria and the hardworking and innocent Citizens of this country are being sacrificed on the altar of personal and selfish interests of a few whose primary objective is only to capture power, raw power, not in the service of the people but for their personal gains.

“I also say challenges because the damage inflicted on our country and our people is too deep and too pervasive. Today, there is no part of our national life which has been spared: our farming populations and our tradesmen; members of the business community and the professional; intellectuals and security personnel.”

On leadership recruitment within the NNPP, Prof Alkali said; “Fortunately, we have many Great Leaders in our Party who not only believe in these values but live by them. His Excellency Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso PhD, the National Leader of the Party has demonstrated again and again that the future of Nigeria is too important to be left in the hands of unpatriotic elements and those engaged in trial and error Leadership.

“He is an ardent believer that if other nations can advance and prosper, Nigeria too can do it. Indeed we must do it.”