By SUNNY OKIM
Leaders of Conscience under the auspices of National Consultative Front (NCFront) has welcomed the birth of Rescue Nigeria Project (RNP) as a variant of the expanding Third Force movement in Nigeria.
In a statement made available to News Express issued by the citizens' led mass political movement and signed by its Media Assistant, Yusuf Abdullahi Suleiman, the NCFront said it is upbeat and quite optimistic that the emergence of the NRP will strengthen the Rescue Agenda initiated by the NCFront in July, 2020 under the leadership of Rt Hon Ghali Umar Naa'aba and Prof Pat Utomi towards the emergence of a formidable credible alternative third force political movement to save Nigeria from rudderless political leadership and exploitative governance.
The NCFront stated that, in line with its founding mandate, it is prepared to fuse all variants of the Third Force Movement including RNP led by Dr Usman Bugaje, Nigeria Intervention Movement (NIM) led by Dr Olisa Agbakoba SAN, the EndSars Movement and the yet to be launched Alliance for the Defence of Democracy(ADD) among others groups, into one formidable political bloc ahead of the 2023 elections.
This, according to the statement, is "to avoid an unfortunate alibi for the rigging of the 2023 elections as naively foisted in 2019 so as to save Nigeria from imminent anarchy and threatening insecurity foisted as a result of the eroded legitimacy of ruling political leaders necessitated by flawed elections and unpopular mandate".
"As a way forward in this direction, the NCFront leadership has decided to mobilise and bring every credible stakeholder and like minded political party to come together and launch an emergency national political coalition to champion the adoption of electronic transmission of election results for the 2023 elections.
"To this end, like minded progressive political leaders, stakeholders and groups in the leading political parties have been contacted and have agreed to join forces with the new coalition to be launched in Abuja on Friday, October 1st 2021.
"Others expected to a play major roles in this new political coalition are respected leaders of Labour and Civil Society as well as notable elders, who have also agreed to serve as the new coalition's advisers," the statement said.
