Muhammad Tukur
The National Consultative Front (NCFront), a major political consortium of leading opposition forces in Nigeria, has revealed an ongoing move to unite the major candidates in the 2023 presidential election.
It specifically mentioned former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwakwanso as some of those it was trying to unite to form a new mega movement to save Nigeria from the “misrule of the All Progressives Congress (APC)”.
The group led by Prof. Pat Utomi disclosed this in a statement issued by its national spokesperson, Mallam Hamisu San Turaki on Tuesday.
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.”
On the question of who becomes the candidate of the new movement in 2027, the group said that it had already been foreclosed and “will only be discussed and popularly resolved after the formation of the mega movement”.
It added that the leading presidential candidates in the 2023 elections and other political gladiators in the consultations have already decided to jettison their 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,” it said.
