Obasanjo officially registers with CNM hoping to sack Buhari in 2019

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday officially registered with the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM).

Obasanjo had in his recent letter asking Muhammadu Buhari to go home and rest and not seek re-election in 2019, suggested CNM as a new non-partisan movement that will ensure Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are voted out in 2019.

The movement was on Wednesday launched in Abuja at the Yar’Adua Centre, Abuja.

On Thursday, former PDP governors of Osun and Cross River states, Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Donald Duke respectively, were in attendance at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Oke-Ilewo Abeokuta, where Obasanjo did his registration.

They had both also attended, and spoke during the inauguration of the group in Abuja,

Obasanjo noted that he will leave the group if it becomes partisan, even as he predicted that CNM will “emerge victorious in 2019.”

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Oyinola had also, while speaking during the launching of the group in Abuja, maintained that the group is not a political party, at least for the moment.

Also speaking in the same vein, Obasanjo explained that the newly formed CNM, is a pressure group for good governance.

“Some people have started worrying about the problem of personalities, in which some, in other efforts, allocate positions to themselves. This movement is not about personality or personalities; but about platform and system.

“Our system so far has not given us what we must have. For the first time, we are building a platform from bottom-up. The movement’s base is the grassroots and the people – all the people.

“It is necessary to make it clear that this movement does not regard itself as a third force. It sees itself as a popular movement that can accommodate all Nigerians irrespective of their political interest or affiliations and will propel Nigeria forward.”

 

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