2019: Atiku, Duke, 13 others to battle for CUPP ticket

The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has said that with the completion of election primaries, it was set to now select a consensus presidential candidate from about 15 different political parties under its umbrella.

With the development, former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, who emerged as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday, will now battled to become the consensus candidate of the coalition with former Cross River State governor, Donald Duke, the candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP); and 13 others.

CUPP, a union of about 40 political parties that teamed up to ensure power is wrestled from All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, made the announcement in a statement on Sunday while congratulating Atiku, and other presidential aspirants who emerged from the political parties in the alliance.

In a statement by the group’s national spokesperson, Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, the coalition said that the end of the individual party primaries marked the start of the main work which was now to select a consensus candidate among them.

The statement read, “With the completion of political parties’ primaries, all is set for the emergence of the consensus candidate of the CUPP that will send the incompetent Buhari led APC government to the political Golgotha

“The CUPP (Coalition of United Political Parties) the umbrella body of over 40 opposition political parties wish to congratulate the PDP, SDP, APP, NIP, UDP, AA, C4C and all other coalition parties in the grand Alliance for their successful primaries completion today.

“The end of the primary process of the individual parties today marks the beginning of the main work of the CUPP which is to select a consensus candidate from the over 15 Presidential candidates that have emerged from parties that are members of the CUPP grand alliance.

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“The process that will lead to the emergence of the Grand coalition candidate of the CUPP will start in earnest this week.

“Sending the incompetent President Buhari led APC government to the political dustbin of landslide electoral defeat is a task that Nigerians are eagerly waiting to accomplish with the CUPP come 2019.”

 

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