The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has pulled out of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) it had earlier signed on with 39 other political parties with the aim of presenting a consensus candidate for 2019 presidential election.
The party in statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mohammed Alfa, in Abuja, said that the decision was taken at the National Working Committee meeting of the party on Monday in Abuja.
The CUPP had on Dec. 5 announced the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as it consensus candidate for 2019.
Alfa said that the alliance was forged on the premise of mutual understanding that all constituent political parties in the coalition would work together and would be guided by the spirit and letter of the MoU as signed.
He, however said that on the whole, SDP noted that the precipitate action of the PDP truncated the success of the CUPP as a…
