Pursuant to Section 17 (4) (c) of the Constitution of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN), the Board of Trustees of Alliance for New Nigeria rose from its emergency meeting which held in Abuja on Monday, the 1st day of October, 2018 on the outcome of the Special Convention for the election of the Presidential Candidate of Alliance for New Nigeria which took place on Saturday 29th of September, 2018 at the Nicon Luxury Hotel Abuja and produced Mr. Fela Durotoye as the Presidential Candidate of the party.

In the statement signed by the Secretary of the BoT, Mr. Aiseosa Osaghae, the BoT noted that “ANN is a Party that is founded on, and upholds, three cardinal principles of Transparency, Integrity and Excellence. And that ANN was founded by and comprises of skilled Men and Women of integrity also referred to as Technoticians that believe in the ideals of a party designed to Birth a New Nigeria.”

Following reactions by a section of the party led by its immediate past interim national chairman, Dr Jay Osi Samuels and a presidential aspirant Mr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, the Board of Trustee in a resolution released after the meeting affirms the election of Mr. Fela Durotoye and that the National Chairman Mr. Emmanuel Dania and members of the National Working Committee of the party have acted in good faith and organised a free, fair and credible presidential primary in line with the provisions of the party’s constitution in part VII Section 18 (1) (a) , functions 2 (a),(b) (f) and The Electoral Act Section 85 (1) which states that 21 days notice must be given to INEC before any convention, congress, conference or meeting is convened by a political party where the presence of INEC is required and where the reasons for such is for the purpose of electing party officers or candidates.

The statement affirmed that the party in line with its ideals have decided to adhere strictly with the guidelines issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and for this reason has ensured that only state chapters of the party that had done their congresses and elected delegates to participate in the presidential primary were invited to participate in the special convention and were allowed to vote in the same election that was duly observed as required by law by the representatives of INEC.

The statement affirmed that the party in line with its ideals have decided to adhere strictly with the guidelines issued by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and for this reason has ensured that only state chapters of the party that had conducted their congresses and elected delegates to participate in the presidential primary were invited to participate in the special convention and were allowed to vote in the same election that was duly observed as required by law by the representative of INEC.

The BoT also noted in their submission whilst briefing journalist that the dates for the said Convention and Primaries were approved by National Executive Committee (NEC) at its meeting of 10th September 2018, and same dates were duly communicated to INEC in compliance with the Law in a letter signed by the National Chairman, Mr. Emmanuel Dania and National Secretary, Sahid Umar on 28th August, 2018, and that it was furtherance to this that the Convention held and produced Mr. Fela Durotoye as Presidential Candidate for ANN in the 2019 general elections.

It therefore urged its party members and persons who might be aggrieved by the processes leading to and the outcome of the said Convention to take advantage of the Post-Convention Appeals Committee and other internal Dispute Resolution Mechanism to address their grievances and to desist for actions that might be tantamount to anti-party and those liable of causing reputational injury to the party.

Whilst appealing to all the members of the party to keep supporting the National Chairman of the party, Mr Emmanuel Dania and to ensure that the remaining primary elections across the 26 states where the party has held its congresses proceed as outlined in the guidelines as approved by the NEC as follows all Senatorial Primary to hold on Tuesday, October 2nd, all House of Representative primaries to hold on Wednesday, October 3rd, all Governorship primaries to hold on Thursday, October 4th and all House of Assembly primaries to hold on Friday October 5th 2018 respectively.


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Why is this baby party disturbing our peace? Imagine a small party can't handle its limited affairs and challenges; yet they sit in their room and on social media to criticize the big political parties.

Animals with horns are being invited to a grand party, snail thinks it's also qualified for such invitation.

Sort yourself out before coming to us!

The spirit of APC has fallen on them.

ANN o aac oo... anyone to drive uncle back to daura

Not like they even have a chance in the first place and they are already having scuffles and internal struggle. For what? To be "Former presidential aspirant". They can't even fix their small party structure and they want to fix Nigeria of 200m+ citizens?

Naso e take dey start.

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I think it's the bloggers carrying fake news. The party would not want to start on confusion.

This people should allow us rest abeg

ANN be like the new cable that came out with initial gra gra and die slowly. I knew the delay durotoye party has come to seek relevance on the political field not for purpose with which it was intended for but to show case them selves .

they should keep confusing themselves where as they know they are not going far, pdp

Imagine having such issues at this stage. No we can't hand Nigeria to you guys just yet. Arrange and manage your party well first, then we can talk

What's wrong with this two iidiots

why all these confusion, ppl wey I get hope on before,

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This is an indication that the years of failure in leadership has nothing to do with the political party. Even if this party wins, all those in PDP and APC will still move to join them. Nigeria lack ideological minds in power & politics. All We have been having are group of individuals struggling to be in position for the sole purpose of deciding who takes the lion share. None has no national interest yet. It might take the next 100 years if there might be one.

The country should be handed over for recolonization. Nothing is working.

bloggers sha

This is a pointer to the caliber of people we’ve in that party, self interested folks, if they’re individuals of like minds then this isn’t meant to get to the media.

Free publicity for ANN

Please what is ANN sef?

I don tire for this ANN matter. E be like say dem wan make themselves popular with this free publicity

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Hisses. Ordinary small ANN that was formed yesterday, cannot conduct presidential primary in peace. Yet, they want to vie for the presidency? Well, na on Thursday person dey always know as weekend go be. ANN's Thursday has come and we can obviously tell how their weekend would be. A vote for them is a complete waste of time. I'd rather just dash the failure buhari,my vote rather than wasting it on one unserious ANN and Fela Durotoye without bearing.

no be only ANN na MMM, if its not PDP then its APC, others just wanno cause distractions, don't waste ur votes abegi.
#backtoduara2019, just like ambode back to epe.

Let me see if I can explain this thing to people who are ready to listen.

ANN had it's presidential primary on Saturday. Hashim withdrew from the presidential race on the Friday before the election leaving Fela Durotoye as the only candidate.

On Sunday we started seeing news that Fela Durotoye collected 750 million niara from APC to destabilize ANN, but if you know Fela Durotoye, that's a lie. The party he is supposed to be destabilizing is strongly behind him.

On Wednesday we had false news that ANN was holding it's primary, then news emerged that Gbenga Hashim won the primary. Big lie to destabilize ANN. Una be Nigerians and una suppose know how our political system dey work na.

ANN have adopted Fela as it's candidate, but People from opposition party are peddling rumors on social media that Hashim is the party's candidate. ANN is one house, it has spoken, Fela is it's candidate.

I know this because I'm a card carrying member of the party.

Party that was just formed yesterday? What's wrong with all these Nigerian politicians? Even fela durotoye has joined them in this rubbish