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.

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