The National Publicity Secretary of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ladipo Johnson has slammed Abdullahi Ganduje, Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) over comments he made regarding alleged divisions within the NNPP.

Speaking on Politics HQ, a programme on News Central, Johnson dismissed Ganduje’s words.

“Well, the first thing I say is that Ganduje’s words are inconsequential,” Johnson said.

Ganduje had claimed that the NNPP has continued to “suffer serious lacerations due to an intractable and untreatable factionalization.”

But Johnson pushed back, arguing that the so-called factions are actually expelled individuals still using outdated party materials.

Johnson went further, accusing the expelled members of manipulating the judicial system to obtain a favorable ruling.

“You see, these renegade group of people went to some corner of Abia state, got a default judgment,” he said. “They served themselves. But they took before that court an old constitution. INEC was not there. We were not there.”

He explained that a motion has already been filed to set aside the judgment, with a ruling expected in June.

“When you went to do that, did you tell the courts that, ‘oh, there’s a subsisting judgment of the federal high court that says we are no longer members?’ They didn’t say that,” he continued. “They went, they misled the court in Abia. I’ve forgotten the town. Some corner of Abia, not in the middle, or not at the city centre. And that is what they did.”

According to Johnson, the judgment was based on false pretenses.

“So as far as we’re concerned, it was obtained by fraud, et cetera, et cetera. But are we disobeying it, pending the setting aside? The answer is no,” he said.

Ending on a strong note, Johnson concluded: “For me, Ganduje is a non-starter.”