The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has said it plans to become the ruling party in Nigeria by 2027.
The party’s National Chairman, Dr. Ajuki Ahmad, made this declaration during the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Abuja on Thursday.
According to Dr. Ahmad, the party is fully prepared to contest and win the 2027 presidential election, with its leader, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, as their presidential candidate. He expressed strong belief that Kwankwaso would emerge victorious and lead Nigeria into a new era of progress and unity.
“Our party, of course, is witnessing only a minute, but not unsurmountable challenge,” Dr. Ahmad said. “Unlike other parties, whose challenges question their very existence, our challenges are negligible in the sense that those who elected to break away from us continue only to throw pebbles on our windows. They lack the moral, political, and legal basis to hurt us.”
He further encouraged party leaders at all levels to remain united and focused. He dismissed claims of a parallel leadership being formed in Apapa, Lagos, describing such moves as baseless and ineffective.
“I therefore call on our leaderships at all levels—national, state, local government, and ward levels—to please brace up and confront these challenges, particularly to ignore the recent chariot that claims to establish a parallel leadership in Apapa, Lagos,” Ahmad said. “The questionable paper they have been brandishing like a weapon of mass destruction is nothing other than what it is—a paper. We will soon tear that paper apart.”
Dr. Ahmad also called for unity and hard work among party members, as it moves towards becoming the ruling party.
“Let us stand together as a party, move together as a party, act together as a unified whole, with one destiny,” he urged. “That is the destiny to become the ruling party come 2027. It is definitely going to be a tough journey; however, no journey is worthy and worth undertaking if it is not tough. We are the NNPP.”
“We embody the hopes and future of our youth, and we are poised to lift Nigeria out of its current state and build a nation of which all of us will be proud,” Ahmad added.
