About 45 opposition political parties under the aegis of Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, have announced former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of PDP as the consensus candidate of the opposition in the 2019 presidential election.
The Coalition took the decision after a closed door deliberation at the Yar’ Adua Centre Abuja today.
The group in a statement signed by its First spokesman, Ikenga Ugochinyere and made available to Vanguard a few minutes ago said CUPP arrived at Atiku’s choice after he “towered high on the criteria used by the opposition in arriving at the decision which includes national acceptability, financial capacity, spread of his political party, leadership capacity, international acceptability, experience , capacity to rebuild the economy, secure the country and unite all Nigerians among other factors.”
