- Abdulkadir said reports of NNPP chairmen defecting to ADC were based on misinformation spread by some media outlets.
- He clarified that only former party officials who earlier joined APC are now the ones aligning with ADC.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied claims that its chairmen across the 34 local government areas in Katsina State have defected to another party.
The party said none of its executives had joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC) or any other political group.
The chairman of the party in Katsina State, Alhaji Armaya’u Abdulkadir, made the clarification in a statement issued on Monday.
He said their attention had been drawn to reports circulating in some media platforms and on social media.
Abdulkadir said, “The attention of the NNPP Katsina chapter has been drawn to some publications made in some media organisations and circulated in the social media.
“The publication revealed that 34 NNPP local government chairmen have defected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
“The defection, as it was reported, was through the former Secretary to the state government, Alhaji Mustapha Inuwa in Katsina State.”
He said some of their former local government chairmen defected after the 2023 presidential election.
“It is on record, however, that some of our chairmen, after the 2023 presidential elections, defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC),” he said.
He explained that the same individuals who joined the APC then are now the ones defecting to the ADC.
“Thus, these same people are the ones that defected to the ADC from the APC. Therefore, their defection was from APC, not from NNPP,” he added.