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From Desmond Mgboh, Kano
Kano State Chapter of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), yesterday said it had expelled a top member of its party and member of the House of Representatives, Abdulmumin Jibrin Kofa.
Jibrin, who represents Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency, was a close ally of both President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the leader of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, until the recent development.
Speaking during a news briefing in Kano, the NNPP state chairman, Hashim Sulieman Dungurawa, said the embattled lawmaker overstepped the bounds of the party and would no linger be tolerated.
He accused him of anti-party conduct, repeated media outbursts against the party and its leadership as well as unmet financial obligations to the party.
Dungurawa recalled that Jibrin emerged victorious in the last elections due primarily to the backing of the Kwankwasiyya Movement and the NNPP platform than his personal political strength.
“If he was truly strong politically, he would have won his previous elections under the APC, but he failed. It was when he joined NNPP through Kwankwasiyya that he became a House member. Now he is deceiving himself thinking he is strong,” Dungurawa stressed
The chairman recalled that the party did not just act on his case but had set up a reconciliation committee to engage him after his last interview with Channels Television.
He regretted that nothing tangible was achieved from the intervention as his subsequent media outings proved he had not changed.
“Instead of dialogue, he went further to work against our interest, openly declaring loyalty to another party. That is why we expelled him. He has no value to add,” he lamented.
Dungurawa further accused Jibrin of failure to honour the mandatory party dues as a member of the party, vowing that NNPP would institute a legal action to recover the funds.
Sunday Sun recalled that Jibrin had days ago hinted that he might decamp from the NNPP for a new political platform.
In that interview with DCL Hausa, he stressed that it should not come as a surprise to anyone if he decides to leave the NNPP anytime from now.
Sunday Sun report that with the present expulsion, the NNPP has further depleted its numbers in the National Assembly.
NNPP reps members who had previously decamped included the Senator representing Kano South, Suleman Kawu Sumaila; the Reps member representing Rano/Bunkure/ Kibiya Federal Constituency, Kabiru Alhassan Rirum, and the member representing Karaye/Rogo Federal Constituency, Abdullahi Sani Rogo.
