The
three leading opposition political parties, the Action Congress of
Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples
Party, on Tuesday said their plan to merge was to save the country from
collapse.
Their leaders spoke in Abuja at the presentation of Manifesto of a Nigerian Opposition Politics, written by a civil rights activist, Mr. Salihu Lukman.
According to the ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi
Akande, all progressives must unite in order to send the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party out of power in 2015.
This, he said, was necessary in order to save the country and its people from the “misrule” of the PDP-led Federal Government.
Represented by the party’s National Secretary,
Senator Lawan Shuaib, Akande said, “Nigerian and its people are at
crossroads. We must move fast and save the country from the PDP. That is
the essence of the merger.”
Also, the CPC National Leader and a former Head of
State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), called on Nigerians not to
lose hope.
Posterity, he said, would not forgive the opposition leaders if they allowed personal agenda to mar the proposed merger plan.
Buhari, represented by a former Deputy Governor of
Bauchi State, Alhaji Garba Gadi, said the desire to consummate the
relationship would make the CPC inaugurate its merger team by Wednesday
(today).
He said, “By morrow (today), the CPC will inaugurate a
committee on the proposed merger talk. This is to show that we are
determined about it and we must not fail.”
The ANPP National Chairman, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu, said
the 2015 political battle would be between the conservatives and the
progressives.
Describing the PDP as the conservatives, Onu said the party had failed the nation.
He said, “By the grace of God, we will make it in
2015. The 2015 election battle will be between the conservatives and the
progressives. The conservatives have been in power since 1999 and
people have been dying of hunger since then.
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