Consequently, the party’s presidential flag bearer, Senator
Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, alongside his running mate, Bishop Isaac Idahosa, and
other party stalwarts will storm Lagos on Tuesday, August 23, 2022 for that
purpose.
Senator Kwankwaso, who will be the Special Guest in a Town
Hall Meeting at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, will use the opportunity to interact
with maritime stakeholders with a view to ascertaining the peculiar needs of
this vital but neglected sector of the economy.
The forum will also offer the Kwankwasiyya Movement leader
the opportunity to enter into a social contract with the stakeholders on what
they should expect from the NNPP government should the party come into power in
2023.
The event, slated for 11.00am, will be chaired and moderated
by a maritime technocrat, Otunba Kunle Folarin, who is also the Chairman,
Nigerian Ports Consultative Council (NPCC).
According to Mr. Kingsley Anaroke, the Director, Administration
and Communications, Prime Maritime Project(PMP),conveners and managers of the
event in a statement, the emergency situations in the maritime has called for
the need to mainstream Maritime Agenda in political programmes of political
parties.
“PMP is interfacing with all the political parties’
decision-makers and more importantly, their various presidential candidates to
secure a Social Contract with the maritime industry stakeholders.
“We believe it is high time we stopped watching politics
foist unsightly fate on the industry but redirect our collective fortunes by
playing the right politics of participation for a sustainable industry,” the
statement added.
PMP is a Maritime and Transport Logistics-centric solution
offering initiative founded by some senior maritime journalists and operators
to address the myriad of the maritime challenges with political flavor and
professional intelligence of the technocrats.
Introductory remarks would be expected from the Founder of
the NNPP, Dr. Boniface Okechukwu Aniebonam, the Ozo Ebubechukwu Umuawulu, who
also doubles as the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) and Spiritual Leader of
the party.
Expected at the forum are key industry stakeholders cutting
across all segments of the sector, including public and government
establishments.
Rapparteurs will be on hand to collate all the vital
decisions to be taken at the Town Hall meeting concerning the needs of the
sector which will form the documented social contract between the stakeholders
and the party.
Recall that the 21 year old NNPP is an offshoot of the
National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), which
was founded by Dr. Aniebonam in 1999. It was among the 18 political parties
that survived the pruning sledge hammer of the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC).
NNPP was founded as NAGAFF’s political wing with the aim of
incorporating shipping trade and allied businesses into good governance in the
country.