The Caretaker Committee of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Osun State on Saturday refuted that the party in the state endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress(APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for the 2023 elections.
The Sate Chairman of the NNPP Caretaker Committee, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdullateef, at a news conference in Osogbo on Saturday, told Nigerians to disregard the report.
Abdullateef declared that the four NNPP members who reportedly endorsed Tinubu are “on their own.”
The state chairman declared: “the only presidential candidate known to the NNPP is Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso, “who has all it takes to give our dear country a new lease of life come May 29, 2023, and beyond.
“We in the Osun NNPP want to reaffirm our support for His Excellency, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the Presidential Candidate of NNPP.
“He is the most qualified of all the presidential candidates in Nigeria, in terms of education, work experience, political maturity and closeness to the grassroots.”
Abdullateef further stated: “It may interest the world to know that the leadership of NNPP at the National level has decided to put a stop to this betrayal habit, resulting in the change of the State leadership in Osun State.
“The after effect of the change was the show of shame by four candidates of the party, who purportedly endorsed another presidential candidate as witnessed.
“If candidates of a political party endorse the presidential candidate of another party while still holding on to the mandates of NNPP, their action did not come to us as a surprise.
“Once again, we outrightly dissociate Osun NNPP from people of unstable credentials and anti-party characters.
“As for the genuine members of the party in the state, we further affirm that all candidates of NNPP in Osun State are working towards success at the 2023 polls.”