NNPP Adopt Ex Uni-Ilorin VC As Kwara State Gubernatorial Candidate

The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, has adopted the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Shuaib Oba AbdulRaheem, as its gubernatorial candidate for the 2023 election.

The state Chairman of NNPP, AbdulRazaq Abdulsalam, announced this in Ilorin, the state capital, on Monday shortly after the party stakeholders’ meeting with AbdulRaheem.

According to him, the party picked Professor Oba Abdulraheem as its governorship candidate, stressing that he is now a full-fledged member of the NNPP.

Abdulsalam disclosed that AbdulRaheem would attend the meeting of all the NNPP gubernatorial candidates in Abuja on Tuesday this week.

In his reaction, the endorsed gubernatorial candidate, AbdulRaheem, confirmed he has wholly joined the NNPP.

He expressed his preparedness to join with other eminent Nigerians and Kwarans to take the party to a greater height.

He added that the leadership of the party, particularly Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the party’s presidential candidate, is a politician with a high level of integrity that one can reckon with.

Abduraheem, who is the Talba of Ilorin, disclosed he has moved around most political parties after he retired from public service and realised that the NNPP is the only party that has people with integrity and genuine love of the people at heart. Not politicians that are greedy, self-centered, and opportunistic.

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to embrace the party and vote for its candidates massively during the 2023 general elections, boosting that the Kwarans have already accepted the party and his candidacy.

In his remarks, the Kwara North Senatorial candidate of the NNPP, Dr. Kolo Baba Jiya, said the party will form government in Kwara State come 2023, describing it as a credible party that the electorate should join.

He expressed confidence in the ability of AbdulRaheem to lead the party to victory in the forthcoming elections and return Kwara to the path of progress and greatness.

Kolo added that they would soon hold a more elaborate event where the party’s gubernatorial candidate would be presented to the public.

Another party member in the state, Ope Saraki, described the coming and endorsement of Professor Oba Abdulraheem as a significant assertion to the party.

According to him, the former Vice-Chancellor and Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission, FCC, had touched many lives positively when he held those positions and therefore enjoined Kwarans to support him in his gubernatorial ambition.