The Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) has clarified that the recently inaugurated Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) an alliance aimed at mobilising against President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in 2019, will not be dominated by any of the 39 political parties that formed the coalition.
Recall that a week ago, the PDP had led the rAPC, ADC, SDP and 35 other opposition parties entered into a grand alliance ostensibly to combine forces against the ruling APC in the 2019 general elections.
NIM’s Co-Chairman, Olisa Agbakoba, said the grand alliance was a culmination of NIM’s Initiative towards ensuring ultimate better Governance of the country from May 29, 2019.
In a Press Statement released following its Expanded Steering Committee Meeting at the weekend in Lagos, the movement debunks the notion being mischievously peddled that one of the political parties that make up the Alliance, actually initiated CUPP with the intent of surreptitiously controlling all other parties in CUPP.
Reminding Nigerians that NIM was essentially the only member of the Alliance without a political party affiliation for now, Co-Chairman Olisa Agbakoba pointed out, “NIM’s modus operandi, ab iniitio, has been to initiate a united electoral alliance of like-minded groups, individuals and parties towards achieving a New Nigeria via the ballot box come 2019.
“So, NIM is working hard to bring more parties, including, People’s Trust, PT, our own brand new political platform into the Coalition and to end any further misperception regarding CUPP’s purpose and relevance in ensuring that Nigeria does not become a failed state where genocidal actions, brazen impunity and socio economic retrogression are the norm!” Also, NIM Co-Chairman, Tafawa Balewa, noted that, “now we’ve all come together, against all odds to create a formidable political alliance, we are not surprised at the vicious propaganda being deployed against CUPP.
But, come 2019, we quite assured CUPP shall be victorious Ludorum!”