2019: NIM applauds Babangida’s endorsement of younger successor for Buhari

The Nigeria Intervention Movement, known as the Third Political Force in Nigeria, has applauded former Military President Ibrahim Babangida’s endorsement of its agenda to recruit, groom and position credible fresh breed successor leaders for the 2019 elections.
Babangida, in an initial statement that has generated controversy, said President Muhammadu Buhari should leave the stage in 2019 for a new generation “digital” leadership to take the country out of its current political quagmire.
While commending Babangida’s strategic intervention in the crisis of leadership and politics rocking Nigeria, NIM’s Deputy Director General, Mallam Naseer Kura, on Sunday in Abuja said NIM is also compelled by the dearth of real political parties in the country to facilitate a major rainbow political platform modeled after the African National Congress of South Africa to undertake the grooming of its adopted candidates for the 2019 elections.
Kura further stated: “With this crucial endorsement of the third force initiative of NIM by IBB and other Eminent Leaders of the country, it means the time has come for fresh breed third force ideologues to rise up and take over the mantle of leadership to lead the country out of the present woods of political inertia and impunity, while also not shying away from NIM’s core agenda for profound democratic reordering of the Nigerian State come 2019.”
The group also disclosed that it is poised to use the occasion of its national political summit and public outing in Abuja on February 27 and 28, 2018 to seal the fusion and harmonisation of various other coalitions, parties and forces with similar goals and aspirations, already in talks with NIM, as the Umbrella body of the third force initiative in Nigeria.
Kura added: “Finally, we wish to welcome and open our doors to any political stakeholder, irrespective of tribes, tongues and class, who is prepared to sign on to NIM philosophy, ideology, Constitution and Manifesto and who is prepared to be held accountable by NIM’s creed of allegiance and solidarity with the peoples of Nigeria.”