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NCP dissociates self from Atiku’s emergence as CUPP consensus candidate
The National Conscience Party (NCP) has disassociated itself from the adoption of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, as the consensus candidate of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).
According to the NCP, the purported adoption of Atiku is “an affront to the spirit and letter of CUPP.” Speaking in a phone interview with Saturday Telegraph yesterday, NCP National Publicity Secretary, Dr. Emmanuel Okereke, declared the process that threw up Atiku as CUPP consensus presidential candidate as “a rape to the ethos of political alliance viz social re-engineering.”
While stating that “it is not only an affront to the National Conscience Party, which gave this alliance credence but also to CUPP, therefore must be unfalteringly resisted,” Okereke added: “There is absolutely no other imperative of an alternative development and self-sacrificing rescue agenda to save democracy and cure our hemorrhaging Nigeria than the sacrifice and history collectively made by the National Conscience Party’s National Executive Committee and National Coordinating Council unanimous resolve via a highly questioned, but robust and long-winded consultations with the masses to fully go into alliance with the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) for credence”.
New Telegraph, December 8, 2018
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