Our merger not like APC – CNN

The 15 political parties that launched a new alliance in Abuja on Monday have insisted that their merger is not like the one that gave birth to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2013.
Named ‘Coalition for a New Nigeria (CNN)’, the coalition told reporters that they met and resolved to work together in order to chart a positive course for a new Nigeria.

CNN plans to field a consensus candidate for the presidential election in 2019.
The parties included are Labour Party (LP), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Democratic Peoples Congress (DPC), Action Alliance (AA), Progressives Peoples Alliance (PPA), Young Democratic Party (YDP), Democratic Alternative (DA) and National Conscience Party (NCP).
Others were Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), Mega Progressive Peoples Party (MPPP), Better Nigeria Peoples Party (BNPP), African Democratic Congress (ADC), People for Democratic Change (PDC), United Democratic Party (UDP) and National Action Congress (NAC).

Speaking on behalf of the coalition, the National Chairman of Labour Party, Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, said they would galvanise their efforts to ensure that their candidate emerged victorious in 2019.