NIM reveals what it did before merging with ANN, speaks on working with Obasanjo

The Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM, led by Olisa Agbakoba, has
revealed that it held marathon meetings with 17 political parties in
the country before settling for the Alliance for New Nigeria, as a
platform to use in the 2019 general elections.


It expressed readiness to work with the Coalition for Nigeria
Movement, CNM, which was birthed by former president, Olusegun
Obasanjo but has now collapsed into the African Democratic Congress,
ADC.

NIM's National Secretary, Prof. Anthony Kila, who made this known to
DAILY POST in an interview, called on opposition parties to join hands
in ousting the "failed" administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.


He said, "I think it makes sense for us to team up with the party
adopted by the group founded by former president Obasanjo for the 2019
elections. I think it is the responsibility of the opposition in this
country to find a way to come together. Like minds should keep coming
together. The ANN as a party is not made up of just ANN and NIM. NIM
is just the biggest part of the party. There are lots of groups and
parties that have adopted that platform. Before NIM adopted ANN. we
spoke to about 17 parties in marathon meetings."

"The idea is to get enough people, enough parties to win (in 2019).
There is enough dissatisfaction and the requirement to effect change
in the way things are done in the country right now. There is an
indication that the incumbent will lose the election. The point is to
get the right people in; I think in the mind of Nigerians the Buhari
government has had its day. It has been tested and tried and it has
failed. The question is that who goes there as replacement and that is
what we are working on."