Four Nigerian political parties have declared that they are coming together to form a working political alliance as the country prepares for the 2015 general elections.
Announcing their alliance at the emergency national executive meeting of the National Conscience Party, the National Chairman of the party, Yunusa Tanko, said that the Advance Congress of Democrats, the Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party are joining forces to give Nigerians an alternative ahead of the elections.
“We are pained that up till now, the Nigerian people are yet to count their blessings without making unpleasant reference to how they are being governed. That is why we resolved as a political party, not to be part of any merger but in a working alliance with other like-minded political parties.”
The group also asked President Goodluck Jonathan to address some of the issues raised in the letter written by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo.
“It is instructive to note that President Goodluck Jonathan should address the nation as a matter of urgency and answer most of the damning allegations which was leveled by the former president, which has placed this country in an unsecured situation.”
This is yet another alliance that has emerged in the country outside the All Progressives Congress, APC which was announced in February 2013, and wrestling power from Nigeria’s ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has been the major motive behind these alliances, as declared by the parties involved.
The National Chairman of the Advance Congress of Democrats, Yusuf Buba, while justifying this recent alliance, referred to the parties on ground, as “a mix-up of strange bed fellows with different ideas and ideologies” which they claim is an opposite of their alliance that is built on the similarities in their ideas and ideologies.
The parties also said that details of their alliance would be made available to the public in 2014, as the 3rd alternative for the people, ahead of the 2015 elections.