Kwankwaso identifies with Atiku, as NNPP calls om Buhari to order APC govs to stop attacking PDP campaigns

The presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Engr. Rabi’u Kwankwaso, may have expressed solidarity with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who have been a victim of attack during presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in two states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north,

The New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), accordingly, demanded President Muhammadu Buhari to call the APC governors to order to desist from attacking PDP presidential campaign or any other party campaign in order not to truncate Nigeria’s hard-earned democracy.

NNPP in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Dr Agbo Major, condemned the attack on the PDP presidential campaign convoy in Maiduguri, Borno State, on Wednesday, in which 70 persons were reportedly injured and several vehicles damaged.

The NNPP declared the attack “outrageous, barbaric, repulsive, and intended to undermine the nation’s emerging democracy ahead of the crucial 2023 general elections that will redefine and redirect the destiny of the country”.

The party urged all “lovers of constitutional rule to condemn and resist this dastardly act by those anti-democratic forces that want to foist the rule of might and thuggery in place of our cherished rule of law, tolerance, and unity in diversity”.

NNPP decried that the latest attack on the foundations of the nation’s frail democracy shows the level of desperation and intolerance of opposition political parties by the outgoing All Progressives Congress in Borno State.

The National Publicity Secretary, Dr Agbo Major, narrated: “In August this year, our great party, the NNPP was a victim of this political intolerance and executive recklessness in the state when Governor Babagana Zulum was jittery over the ever-increasing popularity and acceptance of the party’s Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso Ph.D. invited the police to seal off NNPP’s two secretariats in Maiduguri, the state capital ahead of his visit to commission the secretariats.

“The national outcry it generated forced the police to vacate the secretariats which paved way for the party’s presidential candidate to visit the state. During the same visit, our presidential candidate’s convoy was attacked at the Bulumkutu railway crossing in the suburbs of Maiduguri as he made his way to the airport to depart the state.”

The NNPP requested the Inspector General of Police and Director General of State Security Services to ensure adequate security at political rallies to forestall any breach of the peace.