LP Denies Withdrawing From PDP, Others Coalition
The leadership of Labour Party has confirmed that they are part of the new coalition of concerned political parties that was introduced this week.
A group of seven opposition political parties on Wednesday organized a new coalition in order to strengthen democracy in the country.
The movement tagged the Coalition of Concerned Political Parties was formed in Abuja at a meeting attended by leaders of the political parties at the National Secretariat of the Social Democratic Party.
However, the name of Labour Party, another major opposition party, was obviously missing in the list of members.
The coalition consists the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Peoples Allied Movement (PAM), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Young Progressives Party (YPP), and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
When contacted, the LP leadership denied withdrawing from the coalition.
He said, “They (coalition) wrote and informed us. In fact, we shortlisted people to represent the party at the session yesterday (Thursday); unfortunately, those who were supposed to be there did not go. But we are together with them. The LP is part and parcel of the coalition.”
The chief spokesman of the LP, Yunusa Tanko, said that the mission of the coalition was basically to defend the tenets of democracy and ensure that the country did not fall into a one-party state.
“The LP has been speaking basically with the PDP, NNPP and trying to see how we can speak as one to save democracy in which all of us are stakeholders,” he said.
