Olaposi made the clarification on Monday in Lagos following Kwankwaso’s weekend announcement that he and his supporters were ready to pitch tent with the ruling party.
Kwankwaso, a former governor of Kano State and the NNPP’s 2023 presidential candidate, had warned that his movement would not allow itself to be used by the APC for electoral gains without fair recognition.
But Olaposi swiftly distanced the NNPP from the declaration, saying Kwankwaso had finally admitted he and his group were no longer part of the party.
“At last, we have been vindicated,” Olaposi said. “All negotiations with Kwankwaso should be done in his individual capacity. Our party can now breathe after the resistance and internal crises his movement brought before
their expulsion for anti-party activities.”He added that the NNPP has no quarrel with the APC but any potential alliance ahead of the 2027 general elections would be a collective decision of the party’s leadership and members—not an individual.
According to him, the Memorandum of Understanding between the Kwankwasiya Movement and the NNPP ended after the 2023 elections. He accused Kwankwaso of attempting to hijack the party rather than exit peacefully.
“Kwankwaso has no political party. His value has dipped since betraying the NNPP, the platform that gave him his presidential shot. Many of his loyalists in Kano had already joined the APC long ago,” Olaposi said.
The NNPP chieftain also lamented the delay by INEC in updating the party’s new executive list despite a court-ordered convention which produced Dr Agbo Major as national chairman.
He stressed that any negotiation in the name of the NNPP by Kwankwaso or his group is “null and void” since they remain expelled.
