The National Consultative Front (NCFront), a major political consortium of opposition forces, has backed the budding political alliance between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former presidential candidate Peter Obi.
NCFront, led by Prof Pat Utomi,
stated this while reacting to Obi visit to Atiku, former Senate President
Abubakar Bukola Saraki and former Jigawa Governor, Sule Lamido in Abuja on
Monday.
The group applauded Obi for
what they called his deft political moves to rally leading opposition leaders
in the country to engage and challenge the misrule of the country by the ruling
All Progressives Congress (APC) which, within 11 months of taking power, has
brought the country to its knees through impoverishment and anarchy.
The statement signed by its
spokesman, Mallam Hamisu San Turaki, said “NCFront wishes to state that Peter
Obi strategic consultations, yesterday, with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar,
Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP and other leading
opposition figures in the country has been adopted by our Front as a teaser to
the flag off of a series of activities already lined up by a New Committee
recently set up by the NCFront to facilitate and coordinate Realignment and
Fusion of leading opposition leaders and forces towards the formation of a new
ideology based and value driven ultra-Mega Political Movement based on
rapprochement and realignment of opposition political leaders and forces to
check growing misrule of the APC and save Nigeria from imminent collapse.
“Furthermore, the Realignment
and Fusion process, which is expected to throw up an alternative Mega Political
Movement for Nigerians by March 2025, is expected to prioritise the
mobilisation of likeminded political leaders and forces across the country into
one ideological mega political platform irrespective of their present political
parties.
“To this extent, the question
of merger of political parties is relegated to the background as secondary and
can only be entertained if it becomes necessary after the formation of the new
mega party by like-minded political leaders and groups in the country.”
The group said the above modu
operandi was adopted at the inaugural meeting of the Committee hosted in Lagos
on 6th February, 2024 by Prof Pat Utomi.
“Members of the Broad based
Realignment and Fusion Implementation Committee include Prof Pat Utomi, Engr
Buba Galadima, Senator Shehu Sanni, Amb Mrs Nkoyo Toyo, Barr Ladipo Johnson,
Mallam Ibrahim Ali Ansami, Mr Adai Edwin Adai, Obongawan Barbara James, Barr
Promise Adewusi, mni, Mrs Chinyere Oforkansi, Mallam Hamisu San Turaki, among
others.
“The committee is billed to
Flag off the process of its political realignment and intervention next month
by hosting major consultative meetings with leading opposition Presidential
Candidates in the country, especially Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa
Kwakwanso.
“This is to be followed by
joint national intervention meetings and summit of like-minded political
leaders and groups in the country on the state of Nigeria, as a prelude to
initiating a broad based ideological and value driven political movement and ultra-Mega
political party to save Nigeria from growing misrule of the APC.
“Finally, the question of who
becomes the flag bearer of the new Movement in 2027 has already been foreclosed
and will only be discussed and popularly resolved after the formation of the
mega movement as the leading presidential candidates in the 2023 elections and
other political gladiators in the consultations have already decided to
jettison their personal political ambitions for the formation of a formidable
opposition movement capable of saving everyone from an imminent national
mishap.
“So, National Salvation first
is the guiding rule of this political intervention of the Nigerian opposition
and any individual, no matter highly placed, found pursuing personal political
agenda risks expulsion from the movement,” the statement said.
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