“the formation of the new political party is already at
advanced stage”.
He also said some active members of the two political
parties have been giving “clandestine backing and covert
support” to the yet to be launched political party
Leaders of the yet-to-be formed party said they are ex
pecting an influx of APC and PDP members to join the
party when it is officially launched.
Another source, who is also part of the movement, said
the leaders of the movement are already in talks with
other anti-APC, PDP, who are desirous of providing a
credible alternative to Nigeria in 2023 such as the National
Consultative Front (NCFront), Rescue Nigeria Project
(RNP) and other civil society organisations.
The NCFront is led by Ghali Umar Na’Abba, a former
Speaker of the House of Representatives; Dr. Olu
Agunloye, a former Minister of Power and Steel; Ralph
Nwosu, National Chairman of Africa Democratic Congress
(ADC) and Dr. Yunusa Tanko, former presidential
candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP).
Leaders of the RNM include former Chairman of Indepen
dent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru
Jega; political economist, Prof. Pat Utomi; former
governor of Kwara State, Ahmed Abdulfatai; and former
governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke.
One of the leaders, who asked not to be named, said it is
clear that Nigerians are fed up with both the APC and PDP
and will gladly embrace the new political party especially
given the calibre of people coming on board.
When asked if the time frame is not too short to form a
new political party with just one year and two months to
the date of the presidential election, he said, “You just
wait and watch. It is people that make up a political party.
All the machineries are in place already and we are
confident that the party we are putting together will be
registered by INEC.
“Nigerians voted the PDP out in 2015 when the APC pre
sented themselves as credible alternative. But now, it has
been discovered that the APC is even worse than the PDP.
They are birds of a feather and politicians without
ideology who do not have the interests of Nigeria at heart.
Just wait and see what happens in the two political parties
in days to come, especially during their primaries”, he
said.
Also speaking, Senator Rufai Hanga, pioneer national
chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change
(CPC), who recently dumped the APC, said the new
political party to be formed will be stronger than the APC
when it was first launched in 2013.
He said, “God forbid for Nigeria to end up between APC
and PDP. PDP and APC are drifting, sinking by the day. A
third force will soon emerge which will be stronger than
APC when it first launched in 2013.
“You know APC was very strong when it was formed and
that was why it was able to dislodge PDP in the 2015
presidential election. The third force that will emerge now
will be much stronger than the APC when it came. The
party will participate in this forthcoming 2023 election and
it will clean sweep the whole polity. I can assure you of
this”.
However, when contacted, Yunusa Tanko, who is the
Head, Public Affairs Bureau of NCFront, said nobody has
contacted them for any alignment.
“Nobody has contacted us for any alignment as at today.
We are not into any alliance with any other group as at
now. We are going on with our own programme”, he said.
