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The Founder of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Dr Boniface Aniebonam has said that in spite of the delays arising from litigations, the party was able to field well over 90 percent candidates of all the elective positions in the 2027 general elections nationwide.
Aniebonam stated this in Lagos earlier today, while speaking with newsmen after the party’s emergency National Working Committee (NWC) meeting on Sunday.
The closed-door meeting, which was held at the Rockview Hotel in Apapa, was attended by members from across Nigeria.
He said fielding candidates across all contestable positions did not rule out strategic alliance with political parties that have like minds and ideologies like the NNPP in 2027.
“The NNPP, as you all know, has had so many delays. We are happy we have surmounted most of it. In the following weeks, Nigerians will begin to see and meet our candidates in their various states.
“We can work with parties, where we feel they have a stronger hold and vice versa,” he said.
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On why the NNPP will not zone its presidential ticket, he explained that zoning applies to political parties that have contested and won the presidency and not those yet to win.
“If we will ever consider zoning, it is to be when we would have won a presidential election.
“However, the NNPP has never supported the idea of zoning. We believe that the best person with integrity who can deliver should be allowed, even if successors have to come from the same region, as long as they deliver on good governance.”
He said the party would be holding a non-elective convention before the end of August to have members interact on so many issues in the party.
“NNPP members have a lot of decisions to make on some issues that we do not want to be deliberated upon by the NWC alone. We want inclusive decision making on those issues,” he said.
He urged members, who had left the party in the wake of its internal leadership crisis to return immediately ahead of the replacement of place-holders.
