The NNPP chairman was reacting to speculations that the supporters of Senator Kwankwaso were in talks with Tinubu.
The New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) has denied claims that it is planning to collapse its party’s structure for Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress.
The National Chairman of the NNPP, Professor Rufai Alkali made the clarification while speaking at a press conference in Lagos State on Wednesday.
Alkali said the party wouldn’t back another candidate aside from Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, its presidential candidate.
NNPP chairman was reacting to speculations that the supporters of Senator Kwankwaso were in talks with Tinubu.
Alkali stated that the fast-growing NNPP was not ready to surrender its legitimacy as a duly registered political party to any other party.
According to the party chairman, the room for mergers among political parties had already closed.
Rufai said the party remains a veritable alternative for the APC and PDP, adding that any alliance with any of the parties ahead of the election would be based on equal partnership.