Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s call for an alliance of opposition parties to unseat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has received praise from the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).
Tuesday’s news conference in Abuja, led by the party’s Ag. National Chairman, Abba Kawu Ali, revealed the party’s stance.
“It was recently reported that former Vice-President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar called for a merger of opposition parties as a way to protect our hard-earned democracy and checkmate the excessive drive of the ruling APC towards a one-party state,” Ali stated.
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“We wholeheartedly applaud Alhaji Atiku Abubakar for this call, which we view as patriotic and a positive step.
But the NNPP has made changes to the cooperation that Alh. Atiku Abubakar is proposing. We think that this kind of agreement ought to be comprehensive and wide-ranging.
In response to the former vice president’s request, our party points out that the opposition parties agreed to this audacious plan in 2015, which made it possible for the merger that resulted in the defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), which was in power at the time.
In that sense, the NNPP is restating its stance that we fully support the former vice president’s most recent call.
But as we previously said, the NNPP is approaching this issue from a much broader perspective and taking into account all of the issues that are inherent in it, even if we totally support this endeavour and see it as a matter of necessity.
Without a doubt, our party is willing to work in partnership, alliance, or any other manner with any or all political parties, including the PDP, the Labour Party, and the APC, provided that doing so will serve the interests of the Nigerian people above all else and safeguard and strengthen Nigeria’s democracy.
We are now researching the national mood as well as the political climate. Any effort or invitation from a political party to explore any arrangement intended at safeguarding our people, our democracy, and the long-desired faster and more sustainable development of our nation will be warmly received by the NNPP.
Fortunately, the entire nation is aware of the NNPP’s populist platform, which it derives from both a strong Kwakwasiyya Movement committed to the emancipation of the common man and our carefully crafted Constitution and Manifesto.
“Kwankwasiyya Movement and indeed the NNPP are consolidating and spreading its wings across communities in Nigeria’s North, South, East, and West and beyond the shores of our country for the sole reason of being a refuge of succour for the oppressed and largely dispossessed majority in our society.”
