In a statement issued on Wednesday, Augustine Ugboha, the group’s convener, alleged that members of the party, known as Kwankwasiyya Political Movement, have been engaging in acts of violence following the tribunal judgment thatUgboha said the group has “employed every anti-democratic tendency” in pursuit of their political interests in the north-west state.
“It is also worrisome to know that such an anti-democratic group has since mainstreamed into our political party system through the NNPP,” Ugboha said.In a letter addressed to Mahmood Yakubu, chairman of INEC and seen by TheCable, the group said deregistering NNPP will “promote democracy and the rule of law”.NNPP supporters as a “gang of red cap wearers who chased us out of Kano and put us in the fear of our lives”.