2019: Agbakoba’s NIM adopts political party

The Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) led by Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), and Dr. Abduljalil Tafawa-Balewa has adopted a political party ahead of the 2019 general elections.

In a statement signed by the co-chairmen of NIM, Dr. Agbakoba and Dr. Tafawa-Balewa on Wednesday in Lagos, the group announced Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) as its political party.

The group said in the statement announcing its adoption of ANN, “What we continue to have instead is that recycled and spent forces, who form the entrenched power in Nigeria, continue to massage their bloated ego and greed for our common resources.

“But for us in NIM, the whole essence of political leadership and government is the welfare and well-being of the citizenry.

“However, what has become notoriously self-evident in our circumstance instead is the increasing impoverishment and pauperisation of the generality of our citizenry compounded by general insecurity, deepening ethnoreligious animosity, which have continuously tended to push our fragile unity to the precipice, endangering our more resourceful and beneficial commonality.

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“It is against this debilitating background and the need to restore hope back to Nigerians that the NIM was birthed on November 28, 2017, in Abuja by a new breed of leaders of conscience towards breathing a new life of sustainable popular constitutional democracy and good governance trajectory that will engender a new Nigeria that works for all Nigerians.”

NIM went further to say that it had come to the reasoned conclusion that political parties were crucial pillars for nurturing popular democracy and good governance in any society and that “all the political parties that had the rare privilege of superintending over the polity individually and collectively failed in delivering popular constitutional democracy as well as good governance.”

The group added that it was faced with the option of either forming a new political party or adopting an untainted registered political party as a constitutional electoral vehicle for bringing into manifest its most “cherished, new, prosperous Nigeria” that would work for all citizens.

Recall that Dr (Mrs) Elishamma Ideh who recently threw her hat into the ring for those contesting the presidential position in Nigeria, also revealed, that she would be running under the platform of the Alliance for a New Nigeria (ANN).

 

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