Can this really a fact? One can’t totally judge yet but politics is just a game and things change tho.
The New Telegraph has obtained the information that the key figures in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are mulling what a source called ‘a strong third force’.
The third force is reportedly a new political party ahead of the 2019 presidential poll that would witness the union of Atiku Abubakar, ex-vice president, and the incumbent Governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, as presidential candidate and running mate correspondingly.
While Atiku belongs to the APC, Mimiko is of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and indeed, a key figure in the resolution of the crisis in the opposition party.
The source said:
“Like a nation in want of leadership, proper leadership and a new dawn will soon face the country because what Nigerians are getting is not what they bargained for. The change mantra appears to be fading and some persons are beginning to think otherwise.
“As it was in the run up to the last presidential election, whereby hitherto antagonistic persons came together for a common cause and installed the current government, we are looking at the possibility of mobilizing all and sundry to rescue the nation from nepotisim.
“From all indications, the current leadership has failed the nation and if you read what a North West leader said in an interview today (yesterday), you need no one to tell you that we require a drastic political direction.
“In the process, anything can happen, including the registration of a new political party or reviving an existing one because in all the major parties, that is PDP and APC, there are problems.
“So we are going to reach out to our major political bloc, the Afenifere, as well as some of the Third Republic SDP governors who are now sidelined in the two parties.”
“The new party is immaterial.
As far as some of us are concerned, whether he is VP or not, Osinbajo does not have the political sagacity of the Ondo State governor. I ask, can a Buhari or whoever and Osinbajo APC ticket beat an Atiku/ Mimiko ticket?
“They can longer deceive our people because the truth has come out. They shouted restructuring before election and abandoned it after their victory. Are these people trustworthy? Definitely, a counter force to the existing power equation in the region is about to be reinvigorated.”
As a probable inroad and sustainability in the south-west, Atiku was partly instrumental to the choice of the immediate past Ondo state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Eyitayo Jegede, as Governor Mimiko’s preferred candidate of the PDP for the November governorship poll. Former VP and Jegede are friends, the latter having resided in Yola, the Adamawa state capital, for almost two decades and has been a personal friend and counsel to the former vice president.
Atiku drew the anger of the presidency and leadership of ruling party as, aside decrying lack of focused leadership, he openly canvassed for the restructuring of the country, an idea President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, have disapproved.
Former VP was reportedly summoned and cautioned by the national leadership of the APC for his difference utterances in the media. However, Atiku claimed that the meeting was aimed for the discussion of 2019 presidential election.
-NAIJ.COM
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