2019: Obasanjo's Movement Adopts Political Party to Dislodge Buhari | CNR
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| Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria |
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Coalition of Nigeria Movement, CNM have finally adopted a political party with which it hope to dislodge President Mohammadu Buhari rescue the Nation from misrule in 2019.
The new party according to Mr. Obasanjo is the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
Announcing the party at a press conference on Thursday, the former Nigeria leader said that the movement had adopted “a renewed and reinvigorated African Democratic Congress, ADC.”
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He noted however, that he would not be a member of the ADC.
Mr. Obasanjo said: "Let me start by welcoming and commending the emergence of a renewed and reinvigorated African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a political party. Since the inception of Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, many of the sixty-eight registered political parties had contacted and consulted with the Movement on coming together and working together.
"The leadership of the Movement, after detailed examination, wide consultation and bearing in mind the orientation, policies and direction of the Movement, have agreed to adopt ADC as its platform to work with others for bringing about desirable change in the Nigeria polity and governance. I congratulate the leadership of the Movement for their decision and their choice.
"The emergence of ADC is the beginning of hard work to continue to consolidate our democracy and to make development in all its ramifications real, relevant, accessible, popular and reaching out to all Nigerians wherever they may be", he told journalists.
He noted however, that he would not be a member of the ADC.
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Mr. Obasanjo said: "Let me start by welcoming and commending the emergence of a renewed and reinvigorated African Democratic Congress, ADC, as a political party. Since the inception of Coalition for Nigeria Movement, CNM, many of the sixty-eight registered political parties had contacted and consulted with the Movement on coming together and working together.
"The leadership of the Movement, after detailed examination, wide consultation and bearing in mind the orientation, policies and direction of the Movement, have agreed to adopt ADC as its platform to work with others for bringing about desirable change in the Nigeria polity and governance. I congratulate the leadership of the Movement for their decision and their choice.
"The emergence of ADC is the beginning of hard work to continue to consolidate our democracy and to make development in all its ramifications real, relevant, accessible, popular and reaching out to all Nigerians wherever they may be", he told journalists.
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“The party, ADC, as I understand it, is neither based on the immediate past, condemnable records of PDP as a ruling party in Nigeria nor on the present disastrous and destabilising performance of APC. It is a new platform and a new page in our political history".
“The party, ADC, as I understand it, is neither based on the immediate past, condemnable records of PDP as a ruling party in Nigeria nor on the present disastrous and destabilising performance of APC. It is a new platform and a new page in our political history".
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