One of the major stakeholders in the recenly signed coalition and the National Chairman of the Peoples Progressives Alliance (PPA) Chief Peter Ameh, has said that some of the political parties denouncing membership of Coalition for United Political Parties (CUPP) were never part of the arrangement at all.
Recall that about 20 political parties were reportedly disassociated theselves from the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) entered into by about 38 opposition parties.
In a statement signed in Abuja yesterday, the PPA National Chairman described the political parties who denounced CUPP as “spineless bootlickers and who can not and will not stand for anything except something that will give them immediate gratification.”
According to him, it is needles and an act of mishieve to disassociate your party from the agreement which you were never part of or mentioned in anyway.
“No, you can not make a sweeping and misleading statement on issues that your party was not mentioned at all or trying to pull out of an agreement which you or Party never signed.
“History is ours but it is not ours to write but whatever happens history will be fair to the coalition members for the collective driven interest to savage Nigeria and we state emphatically that the right of association is enshrined in our constitution.”
While asking media organisations to investigate the parties that were part of the coalition initially, Chief Ameh said: “We apologise for the inclusion of SPN at all since it is a party of young zealous people who in their own wisdom are genuinely concerned for the good of our people but are too inexperience to see the danger ahead that if there is no Nigeria they can not have Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN).
“SPN should not have inflated opinion that we are using them to achieve credibility, where is the so called credibility? What have they produced? What is their track record, are they in control of any Local Government? Certainly no. Our aim here is to drop every self cenrtred agenda to safe our nation and we think the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) would see this. Since they didn’t see it, we accept the error and tender our sincere apology but if in the nearest future they come to terms with our core objectives to rescue Nigeria then we will welcome them with an open hands.
“Interested Party and all well meaning Nigerians with the good intention for the progress and development of our country who are interested to join in this rescue mission will surly be accommodated and given a seat on the table because we believe that all hands on must be on deck,” he said.
