All appears not to be well with members of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) following the controversial endorsement of the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. A member of the Coalition, National Conscience Party (NCP), described as an affront, the endorsement of Atiku as consensus candidate for 2019 election.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Emmanuel Okereke who queried the action said the development was against the spirit and vision of CUPP.
“The NCP National Executive Committee and National Coordinating Council unanimous resolve to fully go into alliance with the CUPP) for credence. Disappointedly today in CUPP, same poor Nigerian masses we all came together to rescue are alarmed as just few elements against the letter and spirit of CUPP purportedly adopted the PDP’s presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar as a consensus candidate for the February 2019 presidential election.
“This is a rape to the ethos of political alliance viz social re-engineering; an affront not only to the NCP which gave the alliance credence but also to CUPP, therefore must be unfalteringly resisted. NCP dissociates itself from this macabre dance of shame,” he added.
Apart from the NCP, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had also distanced itself from the purported endorsement, claiming that the procedures adopted were fraught with fraud. The party insisted that the former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke remains its presidential candidate.
