The factional national chairman of the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) loyal to the founding father of the party, Major Agbo, has alleged threat to his life and an attempt to assassinate him.

Agbo, who spoke at a news conference in Abuja, claimed that two armed men came into factional party secretariat located at Wise Zone 4 area of Abuja to look for him with the intent of assassinating him.

He said: “The reason for this briefing is to bring you to speed with an attempt made to assassinate me here in this office on Monday 16^th August 2023. I walked in here at about 2.45pm and shortly after that two men walked in, ignoring the protocol advice from the desk boys in the front office.

“They walked in with weapons demanding to meet me, unknown to them they were talking to me. It was evident that they never knew me physically, infact my saving grace was that I was not seating on my chair.

“Pointing a short gun on me, they demanded that I produce “Major Agbo” who one of them claimed was his course mate at Command and Staff College, Jaji. I asked him if he would identify his course mate he was talking about if seen, he replied “yes”. I then told them Major Agbo was not around. They speedily withdrew, ran into their ash-colored Toyota Corolla car parked by the express roadside (to aid escape) and sped away.

“We are all aware of the recent developments in the party as a result of attempts to hijack it by some ill adviced elements and political opportunists.

“Let me also confirm to you that I have received several threats through WhatsApp voice calls telling me I would pay with my life for standing on the way in their quest to take the party from its founder and its mother organisation – NAGAFF.

“They made real their threat on Monday but failed woefully as they could not identify me. The matter has been reported to the appropriate quarters for action,” Agbo said.

“It is my sincere hope that you would lend your voices to this brazen attempt to take my life over what does not belong to them. It is my hope that you would let the whole world know that my life is presently in danger by usurpers who were not part of our party in its twenty two years of existence but only joined us last year.”

On the development within the party, he said: “The party has witnessed a series of changes including the setting up of the new NWC led by myself and a new BOT led by Chief Temitope Aluko. The party has also witnessed the relocation of its National Secretariat to Wuse Zone 4.

“We have also set up new Zonal structures in the six geopolitical zones with six new National Vice Chairmen already sworn in. States that were hitherto in comatose and some where the unfriendly posture of the Kwankwassiya group (who you all know came in to utilise the platform for the 2023 general election and have since left) created avoidable upheavals have also been reorganised.

“The exercise has seen the emergence of new leadership in states such as Adamawa, Zamfara, Benue, Kogi, Niger, Kaduna, Yobe, Borno to mention but a few. It’s noteworthy to tell you that the family spirit that existed but was distorted by the Kwankwassiya group has since returned and those states are gradually now building up for 2027.” (The Nation)

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