The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has received a complaint from the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) alleging fraud against Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate for 2023, and thirteen other people.
In a statement signed by Oginni Olaposi, who is the party’s national secretary, NNPP yesterday accused Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso and 13 other people of mismanaging the party’s finances.
The plea was delivered to the EFCC’s Abuja headquarters on May 2, with a date of that same month.
Oginni further charged that the former governor of Kano State had misused NNPP’s funds for political purposes as well as to spread the Kwankwasian movement.
“Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso approached the leadership of the NNPP at the country home of Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, founder of our great party, in 2022 through his representatives, led by Elder Buba Galadima and other very well respected Nigerians, including but not limited to Senator Hunkuyi Suleiman and Prof. Bem Angwe,” the statement read.
He continued to state that “The founding members of our magnificent party, including Mr. Dipo Olayoku, the former national secretary of the party, and Dr. Major Agbo Gilbert, the current national chairman, were present at the meeting.
It was also read that through the representatives of the Senator, Kwankwaso requested the chance to run for president of Nigeria using the political party’s platform. The party hence provided him with a memorandum of understanding that was properly signed by both of them “at no expense to him.“
“As a result, new executives were chosen to lead the party and the National Executive Committee was dissolved. We carried out this action with the best of intentions, but Senator Kwankwaso intended, unbeknownst to us, to utilize our political party as a vehicle for the Kwankwasia movement and to equally exploit it.
“As the situation develops, we see that Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was leveraging his position to enrich himself rather than being interested in winning the presidency,” he added.
