CUPP to Unveil Atiku as Coalition Candidate This Week

A coalition of 39 political parties under the aegis of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) will this week adopt former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the coalition candidate for the presidential election scheduled to hold February 16, 2019, THISDAY can report.

A CUPP source anonymously disclosed the plans to THISDAY yesterday because he was not authorised to speak formally on the decision of the coalition set up to foil the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The CUPP is an alliance of 39 political parties, including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC) and Labour Party (LP), among others.

Established with the aim of wrestling power from the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2019, members of the CUPP had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to field and support a joint presidential candidate to confront the ruling party in the 2019 presidential election.

To actualise its core objective, the CUPP chieftain confided in THISDAY that the coalition “is going to adopt Atiku as its presidential candidate next week,” saying it was the way to go considering the dictatorial posture of the ruling party and the spate of killing across the federation.

THISDAY, December 2, 2018

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