Consider United Front...

About 15 presidential aspirants for the 2019 election say they are considering a united front to challenge the current situation.

The aspirants stated this in a communique after their meeting on Tuesday.

The signatories include Omoyele Sowore, Fela Durotoye, Tope Fasua, and Kingsley Moghalu.

They condemned the current ethnic tension across Nigeria.

“The ties that bind us together are today under such enormous pressures, that we can say without any doubt that never in our history have we been confronted by such a scale and scope of existential crises,” they said.

Read the full communique below.

VISIONARY PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS COMING TOGETHER [PACT]

TOWARDS THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS

“ELECTION AS REVOLUTION” BEING TEXT OF COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AFTER A CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF UNDERSIGNED PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS ON TUESDAY 31ST JULY 2018

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT

It is no longer debatable that our country Nigeria has been brought to her knees, and is tottering on the brink of collapse.

In no more than the life of a generation, our nation and people are witnessing the catastrophic failure of governance and the near collapse of virtually all our national institutions; such that we have now become the country with the largest concentration of poor people in the world.

The ties that bind us together are today under such enormous pressures, that we can say without any doubt that never in our history have we been confronted by such a scale and scope of existential crises.

We are very clear in our minds and share the collective conviction, that our present woes, in their history is as a result of collective failure of leadership by those who have been in the leadership of our country for decades, and the establishment that have institutionalised support in their self-interest and visionless leadership.

We share the grievance and anger of our people, as well as their yearnings and aspirations for a new Nigeria different from the one bequeathed on us by our leaders from independence in 1960 till date 31st July, 2018.

We are categorical about those who should accept responsibility for our failures as a nation 1960-2018; and as visionary presidential aspirants coming together under PACT, we are united in our convictions, that our national rebirth can be achieved through collective engagements to install a new political order 2019 by taking up leadership responsibilities in the overall common good.

We are conscious of the fact that, the ploy, by the establishment form new coalitions with the antics of defection from party to party, is a ploy calculated at ensuring that power does not slip out off their hands.

We denounce such coalition and defection forming pranks and antics as calculated attempts to deceive the mass of our people.

We call on the mass of our people, who are victims of their misrule, not to allow them to be deceived again.

This is why those of us who represent a new crop and paradigm shift in leadership, and embodiment of a new vision have agreed to come together and work for the realization a greater Nigeria for the actualization of our full potentials in human and materials resources.

Suffice it to say that, those of us who have indicated interest with our aspirations to lead our country avowed to engage a radical transformational developmental process by way of this resolution reached today Tuesday, 31st of July 2018 as we deliberate on the challenges of our country, with a commitment and resolve to begin the process of taking collective ownership of this renaissance struggle aimed at national rebirth in rebuilding the nation.

OUR RESOLVE AND DECISIONS

In the light of the foregoing and as a response to the collective yearnings and aspirations of our people; we have resolved as follows:

1: Recognising that at the core of our existential challenges as a people and nation is the failure of leadership;

2: we affirm, that as the new face of visionary leadership for our country, we are collectively stepping into the fray, to fill the leadership vacuum, and offer leadership at this momentous juncture in our history;

3: We affirm that collectively, we are committed to the process of building a United Front to mobilise our people to lead the change we desire during the 2019 general elections;

4: We understand that Unity is a process, and not an event, and as such, we undertake to effect necessary steps towards consolidating on the process of building a united front based on shared vision and ideas;

5: Towards this end, we are in agreement that internal party processes towards producing eventual party candidates and flag bearers should be allowed to reach its logical conclusion;

6: Furthermore, we are committed to step up the process of building a united front once party candidates have emerged; and shall continually hold consultations among ourselves and broker conversations with our parties towards ensuring that we are able to present a United Front towards the 2019 general elections;

7: Finally, we know that the 2019 general elections will be a historically decisive one; we know that the conditions are ripening for an electoral process with outcome that can be revolutionarily transformative.

8: We embrace this process of the 2019 election as a revolution.

IN CONCLUSION:

Recognising the crises we face as a people, and understanding that the collective leadership failure of the current ruling establishment is responsible for this failure;

we have stepped forward, to stand in the breach, and provide the new type of visionary leadership for our country;

Such new leadership, so sorely needed is the basic requirement for us to achieve national and human development and realise our full potential as a people and nation.

We affirm, that we are the embodiment of the new Nigeria, and of the process to achieve our national liberation as a country, social emancipation as a people, and societal rebirth and renewal.

We represent the future of our country, a future which begins now; and we know it.

We take collective ownership of that mission.

In attendance were:

Thomas-Wilson Ikubese

Comrade Eragbe Anslem

Sowore Omoyele

Fela Durotoye

Tope Fasua

Sina Fagbenro-Byron

Jaye Gaskia,

Ahmed Buhari

Mathias Tsado

Victor Ani-Laju

Alistair Soyode

Godstime Sidney Iroabuchi

Clement Jimbo

Elishama Ideh

Kingsley Moghalu – Represented

Our future is determined now

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NO FALSEHOOD MUST BE PUBLISHED WITH MY NAME: COMR (ENGR) ERAGBE ANSLEM APHIMIA (C.REG: COA)
PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT, LABOUR PARTY (LP)
08037009181

1: It must be noted forthwith that I was NOT part of the last two(2) PACT meetings that culminated in the purported adoption of a consensus candidate for PACT today, Thursday 30th August, 2018.

2: It MUST BE NOTED that I had WARNED & LONG DISSOCIATED MYSELF along with three (3) other Presidential aspirants (Sina Fagbenro-Byron,
Tope Fasua,
Jaye Gaskia from ANY arrangement that will produce ANY consensus candidate BEFORE PARTY PRIMARIES

3: I AM A PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT UNDER LABOUR PARTY AND AS SUCH, I HEREBY DISSOCIATE MY SELF FROM THE PURPORTED ARRANGEMENT WHERE MY NAME WAS INCLUDED AMONGST THOSE WHO ADOPTED A CONSENSUS CANDIDATE FOR PACT, TODAY 30TH AUGUST 2018

4: LET IT BE NOTED THAT I WAS NOT PRESENT, LET ALONE BEEN PART OF THE DECISION AND MY NAME SHOULD BE REMOVED FORTHWITH FROM THE LIST OF NINETEEN ATTENDEES

5: I HOWEVER, WISH THE EVENTUAL CONSENSUS CANDIDATE WELL IN THE 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION STRUGGLES, WHILE THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALREADY ASPIRANTS IN OUR VARIOUS POLITICAL PARTIES ARE UNDERGOING THE DUE PROCESSES OF INEC REGULATIONS LEADING TO THE EMERGENCE OF POLITICAL PARTY CANDIDATES FOR THE 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA.

MY POSITION AND DISCLAIMER MUST BE EMPHATICALLY NOTED BY FELLOW NIGERIANS !

God be our helper

COMR (ENGR) ERAGBE ANSLEM APHIMIA (C.REG: COA)
PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANT
LABOUR PARTY (LP)
08937009181

GPS2019 NATIONAL CONVENER & SPOKESPERSON

REBUILDING THE NATION !
http://www.generationalpowershift2019.org.ng


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"2019: 17 Presidential aspirants pick Durotoye as consensus candidate
August 30, 2018
2019: 17 Presidential aspirants pick Durotoye as consensus candidate

By Editor
About 17 presidential aspirants from different political platforms on Thursday in Abuja unanimously picked Mr Fela Durotoye as their consensus candidate for the 2019 general elections.

The aspirants under PACT arrived at the decision during a meeting which was called for that purpose.

The PACT made up of new breed presidential had agreed to form a pact to unseat the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC) government and “rescue Nigeria from the brink of collapse through visionary leadership.”

Those at the meeting included:
Mrs Godstime Sydney Iroabuchi
Alistair Soyode
Awwal Abdullahi Aliyu
Clement Jumbo
Thomas-Wilson Ikubese
Comrade Eragbe Anslem
Fela Durotoye
Dr Abubakar Alkali
Jaye Gaskia
Ahmed Buhari
Professor Kingsley Moghalu
Dr Elishama Ideh
Sina Fagbenro-Byron
Matthews B Trado
Victor Ani-Laju
Emmanuel Etim
Ayodele Favour

Durotoye is of the Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) party. He and some other aspirants in the party had refused to take part in the recent congress of the party where the national executives had emerged."
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