Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Senate President David Mark, former Jigawa State Governor, Sule Lamido, and different key figures inside the Peoples Democratic Party have known as on occasion members and Nigerians at giant to assist the rising coalition geared toward unseating President Bola Tinubu within the 2027 presidential election.
This name was made in a communiqué signed by Mark issued following a PDP coalition assembly held on Tuesday in Abuja.
The communique learn partially, “The assembly encourages all well-meaning PDP members and different patriotic Nigerians to hitch the coalition.
“All coalition companions have to be united on the problems of nationwide unity, democracy, nationwide safety and nationwide economic system and the political will to stamp out corruption embedded in our establishments.
“The coalition companions to work out the modalities of profitable all elections taking into account native and nationwide peculiarities.”
President Bola Tinubu’s authorities has recorded each progress and challenges throughout completely different sectors.
Nonetheless, opposition figures from varied events have repeatedly condemned the All Progressives Congress-led administration, labeling it a failure.
Paradoxically, the principle opposition events — together with the PDP, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party, and Social Democratic Party have been battling inner divisions of their very own.
In a transfer to mount a severe problem forward of the 2027 elections, former Vice President, Atiku, LP’s Peter Obi, ex-Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai, and others unveiled a brand new political coalition in Abuja on March 20.
The event sparked widespread nationwide discourse on the prospects of a unified opposition, drawing diverse reactions from analysts and residents alike.
For months, hypothesis surrounded the selection of a political platform for the coalition.
However on Might 19, The PUNCH solely reported that the coalition had formally adopted the African Democratic Congress as its political base.
Earlier reviews by Sunday PUNCH raffirmed that the coalition has chosen the African Democratic Congress as its political platform and has chosen Senator Mark to function interim chairman, with an official unveiling scheduled for Wednesday.
The communiqué said that the gathering of Involved PDP Leaders was convened to deal with the troubling state of the occasion.
They expressed concern that because the occasion’s defeat within the final presidential election and the departure of Dr. Iyorchia Ayu as Nationwide Chairman, the PDP has struggled to regain its footing.
It continued, “Vested pursuits from inside and the irresponsible actions of the APC-led Federal Authorities, which has been utilizing state establishments to stifle and destroy democracy, know no bounds!
“The lack of the PDP management to guide the occasion by its Structure, guidelines and rules led it right into a chaotic and undisciplined occasion!
“The imaginative and prescient of the founding fathers for which the occasion was established and the position it performed in restoring Nigeria as steady and united nation and key participant on the regional, continental, and world stage has been washed away simply as our roles because the chief of the black race is now overtaken by smaller and fewer endowed international locations.”
Mark, Atiku, and different PDP leaders decried the present state of Nigeria, describing the nation as weakened and a supply of embarrassment within the worldwide neighborhood.
The communique learn partially, “The APC authorities, which got here into being on the false and evil propaganda, to avoid wasting Nigeria from the PDP, is now a catastrophe to our nation and subsequently have to be voted out of energy.
“All indices of growth that assist the consolation and high quality of lifetime of the residents have collapsed, and life is now hell in Nigeria.
“The PDP, which is natural with the self-discipline, capability, and historical past to guide and save Nigeria, is now a shadow of its outdated self. The heatwave unleashed by the APC Federal Authorities by way of threats, blackmail and patronage has pressured elected officers in authorities to desert the PDP.”
Along with Atiku and Lamido, different PDP stalwarts current on the assembly embrace former PDP Nationwide Chairman Prince Uche Secondus, former Governors Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto), Liyel Imoke (Cross River), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), and Sam Egwu (Ebonyi).
Different PDP figures in attendance embrace Senator Ben Obi, former PDP Nationwide Ladies Chief Josephine Anenih, former Nationwide Organising Secretary Senator Austin Akobundu, ex-Nationwide Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, and former Nationwide Youth Chief Abdullahi Maibasira, amongst others.
