We have not been contacted to address the situation, so we remain unaware of any coalition being formed. However, we do know that we are in communication with two other political parties, one of which is the Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso-led NNPP. We also held a preliminary conversation, still ongoing, with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP’s presidential contender.
However, I’m not aware of this specific seven-party alliance. We did not receive an invitation, and it is uncertain whether our national chairman is aware of this specific issue. However, in my opinion, we are unaware of the coalition.
Several coalitions have already been formed. I belonged to the alliance that you just described. We referred to it as “the CUPP Alliance.” However, we ultimately did not complete and polish the partnership.
One of the issues we had at the time was the lack of completion and refinement. A specific concern was the choice of the coalition’s presidential candidate as well as the procedures and understanding surrounding the coalition’s formation.
These were some of the obstacles that surfaced during the last coalition. As you can see, forming an alliance is essential. This is due to the possibility that separate political parties may not want to let go of their own identities, which frequently leads to several issues when forming a powerful coalition.
But the alliance will only function flawlessly if there is a shared will to defend the rights of the people. Alliances can, therefore, be successful. However, others do argue that a merger is the better course of action.
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If formed early enough and with parties on good terms, a coalition can lead to the Promised Land. As you may remember, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), and other parties formerly merged to form the APC.
And so, depending on the candidates’ interests, the same event might still occur or it might not. However things stand now, a merger is feasible if we can agree that we must seize power from those who have consistently kept us in extreme poverty.
Some of the discrepancies observed in the several court rulings regarding petitions for elections have revealed this fact in an unpleasant way.
Some of the court rulings regarding petitions for elections have revealed several awkward discrepancies. For example, there has been an instance where a political party declared someone as its candidate even though they did not participate in the primary election. In Borno State and Akwa-Ibom, a member of the Federal House of Representatives won the election despite not participating in his party’s primary.
You wonder how something like this could occur. It’s inevitable that you’ll want to doubt the judiciary’s objectivity. However, these are the current circumstances, despite our continued optimism that things can be resolved. Being a key witness in our candidate Peter Obi’s presidential petition case, I found it shocking and incomprehensible that the court rejected a Certified True Copy (CTC) from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Because of this, the entire situation seemed absurd. We want all of these judicial discrepancies removed from the court.
