Agbakoba, People’s Trust hail CUPP for setting up Steering Committee

People’s Trust, led by eminent human rights advocate, Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), has saluted the Coalition of United Political Parties for its proactive and resourceful step in inaugurating a formidable Steering Committee to pilot the rescue agenda of the coalition for Nigeria

The Protem National Secretary of People’s Trust, Malam Nasser Kura, in a statement at the end of the CUPP ceremony on Thursday in Abuja, said the swift step of parties in CUPP to set up a formidable structure will help the cause of the opposition in the 2019 elections.

He disclosed that his party, the People’s Trust, has formally notified the newly inaugurated steering committee of its mandate to represent NIM in the coalition.

Kura, who also doubles as the National Publicity Secretary of the Nigeria Intervention Movement, a movement popularly acclaimed to have in its fold over five million members, mostly youths and professionals, armed with Permanent Voter Cards, further clarified that the initial involvement of the NIM in CUPP was conceived from the outset to be tactical and temporary due to a twist created by a sudden shift in NIM previous political merger with Alliance for New Nigeria.

Similarly, the leadership of People’s Trust rolled out a formal time table and schedule for its Congresses and National Convention as follows:

A. State Congresses: August 17 and 18, 2018.

B. Local Government Areas Congresses on August 24 and 25, 2018.

C. Wards Congresses on August 31 and September 1, 2018.

National Convention on September 7 and 8, 2018.

In the meantime, Agbakoba, who is also the leader of Nigeria’s biggest political movement in NIM, a major convergence for fresh breed, emerging political leaders of the Third Force Movement in Nigeria, has accepted to steer the rescue agenda of the newly consummated mega party for Nigeria, pledging to go all out to recruit and mobilise other credible political allies and aspirants across the length and breadth of the country to join forces with the new mega party for a resounding victory in the 2019 elections.