76th NEPU anniversary holds in Kano

THE SEVENTY SIXTH (76th)ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF NEPU, WAS HELD AT MAMBAYYA HOUSE KANO ON SATURDAY, AUGUST, 8th 2026:
The Anniversary of the Northern Elements Progressive Union(NEPU), historically refered to as The Northern Elements People’s Union is Commemorated on Saturday, August 8th 2026, hosted annually by Bayero University Kano through Mambayya House.
The event featured a Lecture series reflecting on the historic Political Ideology and struggles of the Party.
The Milestone historic occasion marked the foundation of the proscribed NEPU on August 8th 1950.
The Theme of the Lecture translated in Hausa Vernacular, KWADAYI MABUDIN WAHALA: WAIWAYE AKAN AKIDUN NEPU DA DARUSSA AKAN ZABEN 2027; Meaning, *Greed is the key to trouble: Looking back at the NEPU Ideologies and Lessons for the 2027 Elections*
Reflecting on the historical background for its foundation way back 1950 the NEPU formation was founded on August 8th 1950 at Sabon Gari Quarters in the Kano Metropolitan city by Northern Nationalists with Core Vision sperheaded by notable figures like late
Mallam Kano of blessed memory.
The Movement Championed the emancipation of the Common People, the Talakawa, against Autocratic Rule and Colonial Marginalization.
The Significance of the NEPU was recognized as Northern Nigeria’s first radical political party, establishing an ideology centered on Democratic Humanism and Social Justice.
Key Political leaders and Founders include the late Mallam Aminu Kano, the icon leader, visionary and ideological anchor of NEPU, who too over its leadership in 1953 and later founded its second Republic Successor, The Peoples Redemption Party(PRP).
Late Alhaji Muhammad Danjani Hadejia and Alhaji Illa Ringim were also at forefront of the NEPU Vanguard, and accorded remarkable Contributions in their Original Jurisdictions of Hadejia and Ringim Emirates respectively.
At the Women’s Wing of the NEPU Emancipation struggle was late Hajiya Gambo Sawaba from Zaria, Kaduna State.
Late Hajiya Gambo Sawaba was a fearless feminist prominent radical Organizer and leading female light of NEPU who faced frequent imprisonment for her activism struggles for Women and Commoners rights.
Another Prominent NEPU Frontline member, a poet and literature writer was Late Mallam Sa’adu Zungur. A socialist Poet and intellectual whose radical political thoughts and Anti Colonial frameworks heavily inspired the formation of NEPU.
Also, Political Stalwart and Jingoist Nationalist, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, founding member and long-serving,
high-ranking officer who acted as the Deputy chief Scribe or Secretary of NEPU.
Alhaji Mudi Speaking was the radical, Socialist Poet and Key Youths Organizer in Kano who played a fundamental role in the internal dynamics and ideological messaging of early NEPU.
Another Historic founding Young Architects of the NEPU in Kano was Mallam Magaji Dambatta.
The notable Kano Group Core Founding Members. It would be recalled that originally NEPU was Midwifed and launched by a group of Young Leftist radical activists in Kano, in 1950.
Aside from Dambatta, Spikin and Yakasai, the core foundational members included Abba Maikwaru, Bello Ijumu, Babaliya Manaja, Musa Kaula, Abdulkadir Danjaji, Musa Bidda, Mallam Albatan and Yarima Balla.
From Hadejia Emirate, in the Old Kano State, Alhaji Ali Abdulkadir Hadejia was among members of the Young NEPU radical group members during the Party’s heydays.
No wonder, the Old generational Stalk members of the Party remembered and pencilled down the name of Alhaji Ali Abdulkadir Hadejia for invitation to participate in the recent 76th edition Anniversary Ceremony of the Party, Which he graciously honored.
*Haruna Aliyu Hadejia Atafi Communications Abuja*
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