A coalition of northern politicians under the aegis of Team New Nigeria (TNN), on Sunday, announced its resolve to float a new political party, to unseat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 elections.
National President of the group, Modibbo Yakubun Farakwai, who announced the decision at the official inauguration of the harmonisation committee in Kano, said the decision to pull out of APC was informed by the failure of the President Tinubu administration.
According to him, all their members worked tirelessly with the APC in 2015, to wrest power from the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) but were disappointed and regretted their actions.
“The TNN has already approached the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to commence the process of the party registration. We have already come up with a name, TNN.
“We have developed a logo, constitution, manifesto and the flag and submitted to INEC and now awaiting approval of the INEC to become a political party.
“We are part of the 2015 arrangement, where we worked to see that APC won election in 2015. And today, we did not only regret doing that but, we have made up our minds to take over in 2027 to make a better and a true democratic Nigeria,” he said.
Farakwai, lamented that the APC has failed woefully in every aspect, saying, “There is insecurity, hunger among others and the president is insensitive to Nigerian plights.
“It is very clear that the government has failed in almost everything, it has proved unable to secure the nation’s internal environment. There is insecurity everywhere. There is spiraling lawlessness all over the country.
“There is widespread and rising poverty and unemployment across the length and breadth of the country. There is a complete and total decline in the quality of social services and an irremediable dilapidation in the nation’s socio-economic infrastructure across board.
“There is an unprecedented fall in the nation’s standard of living and an astronomical rise in the standard of living. In short, today, there is nothing going right, and we have become a nation in which nothing works as it should, that is, if it works at all.”
Farakwai, said they already have 26 million registered members to form the new party, and called on INEC to be impartial and neutral in the discharge of their constitutional duties by registering TNN as a new political party.
Ahmad Sorondinki
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