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Police take over NNPP Secretariat, arrest Senatorial candidate

The Nigeria Police, Borno State Command, on Thursday, sealed the State Secretariat of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) located on Abbaganaram Custom Road, Maiduguri.

After the sealing, the operatives stationed their armoured tank at the gate to the Secretariat, as well as deployed personnel within the area.

This is even as the NNPP supporters in Borno and the candidates on the party’s platform are preparing to officially receive the presidential candidate and the party leader, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in Maiduguri.

Reacting to the development, the NNPP’s governorship candidate, Alhaji Umar Alkali confirmed that the Secretariat was sealed and the Central Senatorial Candidate was arrested and taken to the Police headquarters.

“When we got there, we saw a letter saying that our office is in a residential area. We wondered because some few metres away from our office is an APC office, which has not been sealed.

“We cannot be intimidated by the sealing of our office, we cannot be deterred by this, we are determined to wrestle power from the APC come 2023 general election by the grace of God.

“I was a former APC gubernatorial aspirant, they know my capacity, I left APC because APC in Borno is one man show, he assumed himself the position of God, he decides who becomes a messenger,” he said.

“The APC is intimidated by the presence of the NNPP in the State, because PDP is an appendage of the APC in Borno State and they believe with the coming of our presidential candidate and party leader, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, APC will definitely be intimidated the more,” he said.

Egwu Emmanuel

Egwu covers tourism and entertainment

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