By Emmanuel Oloniruha
No fewer than three political parties that were said to be members of the loose Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, have dissociated themselves from the reported endorsement of Atiku Abubakar, the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The parties are Kowa, GDPN and Social Democratic Party (SDP).
“Kowa Party stands for transparency and accountability and we consider the CUPP process largely flawed and quite dubiously executed. We had nothing to do with it and are not aware”, the party said.
SDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Mohammed Alfa who also said the party was not part of the endorsement said the party already has a candidate, Mr Donald Duke whose name had been submitted to INEC for the 2019 election.
Alfa said that the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party would meet next week to take a position on the issue.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
