{"id":72965,"date":"2022-09-24T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu"},"modified":"2022-09-24T19:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T18:26:33","slug":"2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu","title":{"rendered":"2023: NNPP makes clarification on endorsing Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) on Saturday denied a claim that it has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>The Caretaker Chairman of the party in Osun, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdullateef, who made the rebuttal at a news conference in Osogbo, urged Nigerians to disregard the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullateef explained that four members of the NNPP, who reportedly endorsed Tinubu, were \u201con their own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the only presidential candidate known to the NNPP is Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, \u201cwho has all it takes to give our dear country a new lease of life come May 29, 2023, and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe in the Osun NNPP want to reaffirm our support for His Excellency, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the Presidential Candidate of NNPP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is the most qualified of all the presidential candidates in Nigeria in terms of education, work experience, political maturity and closeness to the grassroots,\u201d Abdullateef said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abdullateef, some past leaders of NNPP in the state were in the habit of using the party to trade for personal interest, which he said led to the change of leadership of the party.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt may interest the world to know that the leadership of NNPP at the National level has decided to put a stop to this betrayal habit, resulting in the change of the State leadership in Osun State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe after effect of the change was the show of shame by four candidates of the party, who purportedly endorsed another presidential candidate as witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf candidates of a political party endorse the presidential candidate of another party while still holding on to the mandates of NNPP, their action didn\u2019t come to us as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, we outrightly dissociate Osun NNPP from people of unstable credentials and anti-party characters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs for the genuine members of the party in the state, we further affirm that all candidates of NNPP in Osun State are working towards success at the 2023 polls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NAN reports that four candidates of NNPP in the state in the 2023 elections had on Wednesday declared support for the presidential candidate of APC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) on Saturday denied a claim that it has endorsed the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu. The Caretaker Chairman of the party in Osun, Alhaji Abdussalam Abdullateef, who made the rebuttal at a news conference in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":72964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,14,26],"tags":[1571,1570,2140,254,2540,945],"class_list":["post-72965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-1571","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpp","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2023: NNPP makes clarification on endorsing Tinubu - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) on Saturday denied a claim that it has endorsed the pres ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2023: NNPP makes clarification on endorsing Tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Osun State chapter of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP) on Saturday denied a claim that it has endorsed the pres ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-24T17:01:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-24T18:26:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_14-632f4bc280c1b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"933\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2023: NNPP makes clarification on endorsing Tinubu\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-24T17:01:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-24T18:26:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\"},\"wordCount\":377,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_14-632f4bc280c1b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPP\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-nnpp-makes-clarification-on-endorsing-tinubu\",\"name\":\"2023: NNPP makes clarification on endorsing Tinubu - 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