The Grassroots Development Party
of Nigeria, GDPN, has pulled out of Coalition of United Political Parties,
CUPP, that picked the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, Atiku Abubakar as its flag bearer on Wednesday.
This is coming few hours after
the CUPP announced the endorsement of Atiku as its consensus candidate,
GDPN distanced itself from such
an arrangement.
GDPN’s position was conveyed in a
statement signed by the Presidential Candidate of GDPN, Dr. Davidson Isibor
Akhimien.
It said the party was neither
aware nor in support of the CUPP decision to endorse Atiku.
CUPP is the umbrella body of
about 45 major opposition parties in the country.
“For GDPN to abandon the mission
of salvaging the country from the hands of old and recycled politicians
responsible for the country’s total retrogression and stagnation will be a huge
setback for the party.
“We can’t take Nigerians back to
the dark ages. I want to state that the time to move Nigerian forward is now.
We are a new party on a rescue mission. We can’t mortgage the future of our
great Nation.
“We defer to the CUPP endorsement
of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. We are on ground in the whole 36 states of the
federation, and the FCT,” he said.
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