By Chioma Ugboma
The Founder and National Leader of the NNPP, Dr Boniface Aniebonam has debunked claims by Buba Galadima that the Federal Government is fighting the party in Kano.
Aniebonam in a statement in Lagos on Sunday, said there was need for Nigerians to guard against reckless and unverifiable statements against the Federal Government, capable of triggering civil disobedience.
Recall that Galadima in an interview with the Channels Television on Thursday, accused the Federal Government of fighting the NNPP government of Gov. Abba Yusuf in Kano State.
Aniebonam stated that Galadima, alongside others were expelled long ago from the NNPP and could not speak for it.
“With the challenges facing the nation, all right thinking leader in Nigeria must be mindful of their statements.
“Nigeria belongs to all of us and if there is an uprising, we will all be affected, thus the need to be cautions in our false utterances.
“The NNPP is not against valid criticisms of government’s policies but we are against individuals who tend to use platforms they do not belong to, to peddle lies.”
He noted that Galadima’s unguarded statement not only lacked statesmanship but was wrongly attributed to a party he no longer belonged to.
“At Galadima’s level, he ought to have known that there is a huge difference between NNPP and the Kwankwassiya Movement he runs with Sen. Rabiu Kwankwaso. NNPP has long terminated our relationship with that movement.
“In looking for public sympathy, there is need to differentiate between the Kwankwassiya movement and the NNPP.
” Galadima and others have long been expelled from the NNPP at the expiration of terms of the MOU that brought us and the movement together and therefore, can no longer speak for us in any capacity.
“We urge Nigerians to disregard the unwarranted accusations. NNPP as a party is not under any form of attack in Kano state but probably the behaviour of the so-called leaders from the state.”
