There are indications that the Kano State chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has suspended the Secretary to Kano State Government, Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi, and the Commissioner for Transport, Muhammad Diggol ftom the party.
Both officials and their supporters are reportedly at the center of a brewing crisis that erupted in the party following the party’s selection process for elective positions ahead of the Local Government elections slated for later in the month.
The suspension of the duo was announced by the state party Chairman, Hashimu Sulaiman Dungurawa, on Monday evening.
According to Dungurawa, the suspension came after the party received multiple complaints from the ward and local government leadership of the party.
Dungurawa accussd both of them of disrespecting the party and its leadership while saying that “The party cannot tolerate actions that undermine its leadership and structure” .
“After receiving formal complaint letters from their wards, and upon confirmation of the allegations by the local leadership, we had no other option but to take this decisive step,” Dungurawa stated.
Their suspension, however, was different ftom statemen issued by the spokesman of the Kano State Governor, Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa who announced a truce in the internal conflict that is rocking the party
Bature stated that Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf had brokered peace between stakeholders in New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) and top echelons of Kwankwasiyya Movement in Kano.
“The successful reconciliation held behind a close door at the Governor’s office Monday evening has put to rest the lingering crisis rocking the internal structure of the party” he said
He disclosed that key figures involved in the reconciliation include the Secretary to State Government, SSG, Dr. Baffa Bichi, and Bichi local government Chairmanship aspirant, Hon. Hamza Sule Maifata.
“At the close door meeting, the SSG, Dr. Abdullahi Baffa Bichi accepted the intervention of Governor Yusuf and promised to resolve his difference with the factional group in his Bichi constituency and groups claiming to be his critics”
“Dr. Bichi subsequently dissociated himself from the deviance group (Abba Tsaya da Kafar ka) calling for division between the Governor and the party’s national leader Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.
According to Bichi, ” I have since submitted myself and all my activities to Governor Abba Yusuf as our leader and accepted all that he wanted I am ready to abide with. On the factional group they are talking about, I have nothing to do with them.
On the issue of reconciliation, he said, “the Governor has already intervened and everything is over. We are all his loyalists and we are ready to abide by whatever he wants.
On his part, Hon Hamza Sule Maifata, Chairmanship candidate of the NNPP in Bichi local government also expressed commitment to embrace peace and settle discord with the SSG.
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“We have sat today with the Governor, SSG and other stakeholders and we have voiced our grievances which we later came to understand that it was just being peddled by rumour mongers and enemies of the party.
“We have now forgiven each other and embrace peace. We would now work together like we used to and this reconciliation brokered by the Governor has put it out permanently
The meeting, according to the spokesman was held at the instance of the Speaker, Kano State House of Assembly Rt. Hon. Jibrin Ismail Falgore, along side the leadership of the House, who had prevailed on the intervention of the Governor to quench the crisis from escalation.
