Ikenga Ugochinyere is the First Spokesperson of the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, an assembly of 45 registered parties which recently adopted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as its consensus Presidential candidate in the 2019 election. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard, Ugochinyere unveiled reasons for the launch of Code 20, a strategy aimed at checkmating incidences of electoral manipulation in 2019. Excerpts!
By Dirisu Yakubu
You have made a number of agitations and calls recently pointing to concerns about how the elections are going to look like in 2019. Are you scared of losing?
Ugochinyere: No politician is scared of losing in the general election. Every genuine democrat must know that in politics, there can be only one winner at a time. Once you have that feeling, once you have that understanding, there would be no need to nurse any fear. I think the problem lies with people not wanting to play by the rules. As long as the rules of the game are set right,…
