Kwankwaso's NNPP Plans Massive Merger With Key Parties to Defeat Top Southwest PDP Governor in 2023
- The leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party have vowed to ensure the ousting of the incumbent governor of Oyo state
- The party said it will be forming an alliance with other parties in the southwest region to ensure that Seyi Makinde does not emerge victorious in the forthcoming 2023 general elections
- According to the NNPP, Makinde sees himself as one who has already won next year’s governorship election
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The Southwest region of the New Nigeria Peoples Party announced plans by the party to defeat the governor of Oyo state, Seyi Makinde, in the 2023 general election.
The leader of the party in the region, Adebisi Olopoeyan, said that there might be moves by the party to form an alliance with other parties across the country to achieve this feat.
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Olopoeyan while speaking in Ibadan, Oyo state's capital city on Sunday, November 27, said major political parties might be coming together to oust Makinde from the seat as governor of the state.
His words:
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"Yes, it is possible for the merger of political parties to come into play again in 2023 in order to defeat Governor Seyi Makinde of the PDP. I cannot rule it out. It can happen.
“Makinde and I are not fighting. You should get it right -we are not fighting. But I cannot work for him. I have been talking about my working relationship with him and the efforts we made before he won the governorship election in 2019, from which I have not benefited."
We cannot work with Seyi Makinde
Olopoeyan further added that it is not possible for the NNPP to work with Makinde to bring the desired development to the state.
He said Makinde already sees himself winning the next year’s governorship election which he described as unlikely.
He added:
"Any politician can only know whether he wins or who wins on election day. The evening of election day, when the counting of ballots is being done, is when you, as a politician, will know whether you are losing or winning.”
Trouble hits Kaduna politics over governorship candidacy of top politician
Top leaders of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kaduna state have called for the resignation of Suleiman Hunkuyi, as its governorship candidate for the 2023 election.
The leaders also threatened to take legal action against the party should Hunkuyi remain as NNPP's governorship candidate.
The spokesperson of the group, Ibrahim Murtala, urged the NNPP to drop Hunkuyi's ahead of the election.
Why FG must remove fuel subsidy immediately, Governor El-Rufai gives reasons
In other news, Governor Nasir El-Rufai urged the federal government to immediately remove the subsidy on petrol.
El -Rufai disclosed that governors of the 36 states and federal government officials had agreed to the removal of the petrol subsidy in September 2021.
He added that the transparency of the administration of the subsidy should have forced the federal government to end the regime.
Source: Legit.ng
