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2019: CUPP begins moves to choose sole candidate 

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 LEADERS of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), met in Abuja on Tuesday to begin talks on the possible selection of a sole candidate to be adopted in the 2019 presidential election by the about 40 political parties making up the coalition.

At a closed doors meeting which held at the Yar’Adua Center Abuja,  the leaders resolved to begin the process that will lead to the eventual selection of the consensus candidate for the major opposition parties in Nigeria.

According to a statement issued by Ikenga Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP National Spokesperson,  chieftains of the coalition pledged their readiness and commitment to forge a common front to “chase out the incompetent APC led administration and rescue the country from the gradual drift to a state of economic hopelessness and reign of impunity.”

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The meeting, which was chaired by the chairman of the CUPP steering committee Prince Onyinlola Olagunsoye, had in attendance over 40 Chairmen of National Political parties which are part of the coalition and other strategic partners in the coalition.

Among those in attendance were the  National Chairman of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Olu Falae; National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus; Reformed All Progressive Congress (RAPC), Chairman Engr Buba Galadima; leader of National Intervention Movement,  Alhaji Tafawa Belewa and former Cross River State Governor, Liyel Imoke.

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