By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA – A Coalition of 15 Political Parties has formed an electoral alliance tagged “Mega Coalition” to adopt and field candidates at Governorship and Presidential elections in Nigeria.
The electoral alliance which the parties said is not a merger would see
the participating registered political parties fielding separate
candidates for Councillorship, Local Government Chairmanship, House of
Assembly, House of Representatives and Senatorial elections, but
collaborating at the gubernatorial and Presidential elections.
“At
the governorship elections, the winning party shall form a Government
of State Unity (GSU) while at the Presidential election the winning
party shall form a Government of National Unity (NUG) with a view to
accommodating participating parties in the coalition thereby reducing
the winner takes all syndrome which does not allow smaller political
parties to grow in Nigeria”.Some of the parties who signed the agreement document included the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria ACPN, Better Nigeria Progressive Party BNPP, Democratic Alternative DA, Democratic Peoples Congress DPC and Democratic Peoples Party DPP among others.
For a start, the coalition would field candidates in the forthcoming governorship elections in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun, vowing to dislodge the ruling parties in those states.
According to the document which was made available to Vanguard in Abuja, “the Mega Coalition in response to the high divisiveness in Nigeria and lack of credible opposition party in Nigeria since after the 2015 general elections….in 2019 general election no one single party can win at first ballot. It will be difficult to meet the constitutional two third states requirement. The only way to success in 2019 is for like-minded political parties to come together to select credible, capable and popular candidates who can win elections”.
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