The People’s Redemption Party (PRP) has turned down a request from a group connected to the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to take over its leadership. The PRP made it clear that the party cannot be bought or taken over.
Abdulmajid Yakubu Dauda, the chairman of PRP Vanguard, spoke in Kano on Monday. He said that the party will not let its founding ideas be used for personal or financial gain.
He told people who were thinking about joining the party to be careful because the PRP won’t accept any kind of purchase or secret deal.
Dauda said that some people in Kaduna who he said were never part of the PRP were trying to take over its structure.
He says that these people are now acting like leaders and letting people from other troubled political parties, like the ADC, join the PRP without following the rules.
He also said that the “Kaduna Mafia” group does not share the values of the PRP. He said they are part of the political elite and don’t care about the party’s long-standing goal of improving the lives of regular Nigerians.
The head of the PRP Vanguard made it clear that the party’s current internal crisis is still in court and that there is no agreement to make peace with any group. He asked what kind of unity would ignore the party’s core beliefs and structures when people called for it before the 2027 elections.
Dauda said that the PRP has a long history that comes from the struggles of workers, intellectuals, and everyday people. He said that the party wasn’t made to help rich people or be run by a small group of people.
He also said that giving the party to people he called “career politicians” and “power seekers” would go against everything the founders stood for. He also said that the group from Kaduna doesn’t connect with regular people and only gets involved during elections to look for money from rich people.
