{"id":20560,"date":"2024-11-04T22:55:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20560"},"modified":"2024-11-04T22:55:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T22:55:31","slug":"nnpp-lawmaker-rt-hon-kabiru-rurum-breaks-from-kwankwasos-faction-declares-loyalty-to-founder-dr-boniface-aniebonam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20560","title":{"rendered":"NNPP Lawmaker Rt. Hon. Kabiru Rurum Breaks from Kwankwaso\u2019s Faction, Declares Loyalty to Founder Dr. Boniface Aniebonam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The lawmaker representing Rano\/ Kibiya\/ Bunkure Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Kabiru Rurum, has distanced himself from Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso\u2019s faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), aligning instead with the camp led by the party\u2019s founder, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Rurum, former Speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, asserted that the NNPP under Dr. Aniebonam\u2014symbolized by a fruit logo\u2014represents the party\u2019s authentic leadership, dismissing Kwankwaso\u2019s faction, which operates under a book logo. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He also encouraged Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf to assert his authority independently, assuring Kano residents of his loyalty to the governor\u2019s vision for the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Refuting rumors of defection, Rurum declared his loyalty to the NNPP under Dr. Aniebonam\u2019s leadership, criticizing Kwankwaso for allegedly attempting to hijack the party. \u201cDr. Boniface provided Kwankwaso with a platform; it is wrong to take the party from him and treat him poorly,\u201d he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a related move, the member representing Dala Federal Constituency exited the Kwankwasiyya movement, urging supporters to abandon the red cap, Kwankwasiyya\u2019s signature symbol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This shift follows a ruling from the Uzuakoli Division of the High Court in Abia State, where Justice C.U. Okoroafor ordered that the NNPP be placed under the control of its Board of Trustees, chaired by Dr. Aniebonam. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The court\u2019s November 1, 2024, ruling comes amid rising tensions over the party\u2019s leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawmaker representing Rano\/ Kibiya\/ Bunkure Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Kabiru Rurum, has distanced himself from Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso\u2019s faction of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), aligning instead with the camp led by the party\u2019s founder, Dr. Boniface Aniebonam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9362,677,1405,5955,9055,4330,9361],"class_list":["post-20560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-dr-boniface-aniebonam","tag-faction","tag-kwankwaso","tag-lawmaker","tag-loyalty","tag-nnpp","tag-rt-hon-kabiru-rurum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20563,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20560\/revisions\/20563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}