No factions here — NNPP tells Ganduje to check dictionary

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Ladipo Johnson, the national publicity secretary for the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), has brushed aside recent comments on purported NNPP divides made by Abdullahi Ganduje, the chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Johnson questioned Ganduje’s grasp of political vocabulary and claimed that his remarks “hold no weight” when speaking on Politics HQ, a News Central show.

“Well, the first thing I say is that Ganduje’s words are inconsequential,” Johnson said.

“Two, Ganduje needs to go and open the dictionary and learn the meaning of the word ‘factions’, or ‘faction’, or ‘factionalised’. He really needs to go and learn it. We don’t have a faction, we don’t have factions within the NNPP.”

The NNPP has reportedly continued to “suffer serious lacerations due to an intractable and untreatable factionalization,” according to Ganduje.

Johnson, however, resisted, claiming that the alleged groups are really expelled people who are still using antiquated party materials.

“You have some people who are expelled, who carry the logo, an old logo that has been changed. The logo is not before INEC. INEC is clear as to who, or which person, or who the national chairman of the NNPP is.”

Johnson went one step further and accused the expelled members had used the legal system in order to secure a favorable decision.

“You see, these renegade group of people went to some corner of Abia state, got a default judgment,” he said. “They served themselves. But they took before that court an old constitution. INEC was not there. We were not there.”

He clarified that a motion to set aside the verdict has already been submitted, and a decision is anticipated in June.

“When you went to do that, did you tell the courts that, ‘oh, there’s a subsisting judgment of the federal high court that says we are no longer members?’ They didn’t say that,” he continued. “They went, they misled the court in Abia. I’ve forgotten the town. Some corner of Abia, not in the middle, or not at the city centre. And that is what they did.”

Johnson claims that the ruling was made under false pretenses.

“So as far as we’re concerned, it was obtained by fraud, et cetera, et cetera. But are we disobeying it, pending the setting aside? The answer is no,” he said.

“We’re not disobeying it, because any ruling or order they got was regarding the old NNPP with the basket of fruits.”
He stressed that the NNPP has undergone significant changes since April 2024.

“They forgot that in April 2024, the logo and colours and constitution of the NNPP had been changed to red and white, educational book, et cetera, et cetera.”

Ending on a strong note, Johnson concluded: “For me, Ganduje is a non-starter.”

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