The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Forum of State Chairmen has expressed concern over what it has called the illegitimate National Working Committee of the party frantic attempts to modify the party’s constitution for the third time in six months.
According to the Forum, the most recent plot was to delete pertinent paragraphs from the party constitution in an effort to curtail the BoT Chairman’s authority because of his unwavering commitment to never letting injustice fester within the organization.
The organization claims that the National Working Committee of the party has compromised the positions, integrity, and vision upon which the party was founded, demonstrating that it is no longer capable of leading the party to success.
The Forum of State Chairmen of the NNPP called on Chief Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, the party’s founder and chairman of the board of trustees, to cause the outright revocation of the Memorandum of Understanding he entered into with those desperadoes posing as Democrats in a statement released on Sunday by Dada Olayinka Olabode, the forum’s spokeswoman.
The statement further claimed that Engr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwanso, the party’s presidential candidate in the just concluded February 25 presidential election, was responsible for the illegal assault on the party and its unwavering leaders.
According to the forum,
“Our attention has been drawn to the desperate moves being made by the illegal National Working Committee of our party, to amend, for the 3rd time in 6 months, the constitution of our party.
“The impunity driven National Working Committee will stop at nothing in her continuing act of lawlessness, breach of the constitution and obvious attempt at hijacking the party by whatever illegal means available. The latest plan is aimed at deleting relevant articles in the constitution where powers of the BoT Chairman would be whittled down in the constitution.
“This latest desperation, we are not unaware, is as a result of the uncompromising stand by the Founder and Chairman Board of Trustees never to allow injustice take a root in our party.
“Having surreptitiously, illegally and unconstitutionally doctored the constitution twice within 5 months in an attempt to hijack the party from the Founder, they have, again, realised they cannot achieve their aims without deleting articles where the constitution donated legal powers to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees to call to order any member/organ of the party whose action is at variance to the norms, spirit and letters of the NNPP constitution.
“The Forum of State Chairmen passionately and unapologetically wish to call on our Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chief Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam to without any further reconsideration, cause outright revocation of the Memorandum of Understanding he entered into with these desperadoes masquerading as democrats.
“We also wish to let the world know that we are totally throwing our support for the convocation of the emergency meeting of the party scheduled for 29th August, 2023 at the Rockview Hotel, Lagos as convened by the Founder,” part of the statement read.