The Movement pledged its support to the protest, scheduled to start on Monday, despite what it described as the “kidnapping” of one of the major forces behind it, Omoyele Sowore
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The Nigeria Intervention Movement and the Third Force have after several months of raising the hopes of some of Nigeria’s fringe parties for the endorsement of their presidential candidate dashed their hopes by encoring Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar for the election holding on Saturday.
Key political Actors and Allies of Nigeria’s emergent third force movement under the umbrella of Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM, have commenced nationwide mobilisation towards the formation of a new Political Coalition to rally freshbreed political leaders, Civil Society groups, Labour Activists
One of the observations made when the pressure group, Third Force or Nigeria Intervention Movement, was formed early in 2018 was that its membership was star-studded. Star-studded in the sense that most of them were “very brilliant” people who have mindset that can hardly be compromised.
In a statement jointly signed by the Coordinator of NIM, Ekiti State Chapter, Moses Jolayemi, and the National Secretary, Prof. Anthony Kila, the intervention movement said it zeroed in on Fayemi after due diligence had been carried out on the leading candidates for the coveted position of the governor of Ekiti State.
The Special Roundtable session, which creates auspices for honouring real Heroes and Heroines of the June 12 pro democracy struggle in Nigeria, has also been designed to host leading presidential aspirants contesting in the 2019 elections in Nigeria
Addressing the press on Sunday in Abuja, the movement’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Nasser Kura, said talks with Labour Party, LP, Action Democratic Party, Social Democratic Party and United Progressive Party among others in the proposed alliance for the 2019 elections will be finalised in Abuja on Tuesday with the adoption of an anchoring party.”
The position of NIM was contained in a letter it sent to President Buhari on the security situation in the country
This information was contained in a statement by Mallam Naseer Kura on behalf of the Summit Organising Committee on Sunday in Abuja.
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
This was revealed in a statement by the Deputy Director General of NIM, Mallam Naseer Kura
By Obasanjo’s pronouncement on Tuesday, NIM said the validity of its third force initiative has once again been proven by the elder statesman, who is not known to be associated with frivolity