The National Consultative Front, led by Prof Pat Utomi, is set to hold its inaugural meeting to plan the merger of the major opposition political parties to confront the ruling All Progressives Congress in the 2027 presidential election.
In a statement on Sunday, the NCFront said “a major mega-political party of the Nigerian people” was being planned “to rescue Nigeria.”
“The inaugural meeting is scheduled to hold this month,” the statement by the NCFront’s acting spokesperson, Hamisu Turaki, revealed on Sunday.
The PUNCH reports that a former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in 2023, Atiku Abubakar, mooted the merger of opposition political parties to wrest power from the ruling APC.
Atiku, who made the merger proposition in November while hosting the National Executive Committee of the Inter-Party Advisory Council of Nigeria, said, “We have all seen how the APC is increasingly turning Nigeria into a dictatorship of one party. If we don’t come together to challenge what the ruling party is trying to create, our democracy will suffer for it, and the consequences of it will affect the generations yet unborn.”
The NCFront, in its statement on Sunday, said, “We wish to inform Nigerians that a Merger Facilitation Group of key opposition leaders, led by Prof Pat Utomi, is now set to convene the inaugural meeting of the merger process of leading opposition parties aimed at building a major mega-political party of the Nigerian people to rescue Nigeria.”
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