Presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria, ANN, Fela Durotoye, says he is ready for a coalition even as he commended Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, the Presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria, ACPN, for taking the first step to a viable coalition for the 2019 Presidential election.
Ezekwesili, early on Thursday announced she was stepping down to concentrate on “building a veritable coalition to ensuring a viable alternative to the #APCPDP in the forthcoming elections.”
Taking to his Instagram page shortly after news of Ezekwesili’s withdrawal broke, Durotoye said he was ready to “come into any coalition talks with my brothers Omoyele Sowore@yelesho and Prof. Kingsley Moghalu @moghalukingsley.”
Sowore is of the African Action Congress, AAC, while Moghalu is the candidate of the Young Progressives Party, YPP.
The post read: “I have always believed that leadership is about service and sacrifice and today, I would like to commend Dr. (Mrs) Oby Ezekwesili @obyezeks for leading the charge to forming a viable coalition to presenting a Consensus Candidate for the 2019 Presidential elections,” Durotoye said.
“To ensure that an alliance is formed and we present a united front, I AM READY to come into any coalition talks with my brothers Omoyele Sowore @yelesho and Prof. Kingsley Moghalu @moghalukingsley and to submit myself to any transparent process that will help us arrive at a selection of a Consensus Candidate from amongst us.
“To be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation.
“Once again, I implore the frontline candidates in our generation. Let us come together and seize this historic window of opportunity for our generation to select one of us to go ahead of us … so that ALL OF US can come together and speak with one voice at the 2019 General Elections.
“Together, we can do the perceived impossible.
“Our generation is depending on us.
“We must not let them down.”
“To be clear, if the process produces any other candidate apart from myself, I AM READY to support whoever the Consensus Candidate is and to do all I can to support the coalition to win the 2019 Presidential elections for our generation.
“Once again, I implore the frontline candidates in our generation. Let us come together and seize this historic window of opportunity for our generation to select one of us to go ahead of us … so that ALL OF US can come together and speak with one voice at the 2019 General Elections.
“Together, we can do the perceived impossible.
“Our generation is depending on us.
“We must not let them down.”