Now trending, the 13-page statement released by former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Tuesday, which exposed the inadequacies of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration and also stripped both the Peoples Democratic Party[PDP] and All Progressives Congress [APC] of the capacity to provide solution to Nigeria’s many problems has given a boost to an emerging third force political movement, National Intervention Movement (NIM).
Obasanjo, in his explosive press statement entitled, “The Wat Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement” said Mr Buhari has under-performed while urging him to honourably “dismount from the horse.”
The former president condemned both the PDP and APC, stressing that the two political parties lack the remedy to the malaise that ails the country. He, however,urged for a movement he termed Coalition of Nigeria, which he offered to be a part of, to wrest power from the present ruling class and lead the country into the path of rebirth.
In a swift reaction, one that can almost be perceived as planned, a fresh political platform called National Intervention Movement (NIM), that has been positioning itself as “the third force political movement’ issued a statement to corroborate Obasanjo’s stance on the way forward for Nigeria, especially as it concerns 2019.
In the statement which was signed by NIM’s Director General, Media, Mallam Naseer Kura and made available to TheNewsGuru.com, the ‘movement’ saluted Obasanjo for endorsing a ‘third-force’.
The statement reads: “The Nigeria Intervention Movement NIM wishes to salute the political acumen and vision of Former President of Nigeria and Elderstateman, Olusegun Obasanjo, who today in a most decisive manner called on all Nigerians to immediately join forces to bring about a Coalition for Nigeria; a political Third Force Movement that will rescue the country from the impunity and inertia of the two dominant parties in Nigeria; PDP and APC
By this statement today, the NIM asserts that the validity of the third force initiative of the Nigeria Intervention Movement NIM has once again been further proven by the Elderstateman and Former President, who is not known to be associated with frivolous commentary about Nigeria
It will be recalled that Obasanjo in a most dramatic dimension earlier today charged Nigerians to henceforth seek for their political and economic salvation in the direction of a political third force outside the two dominant parties in Nigeria; PDP and APC, whom he said have both grossly disappointed the people of Nigeria
NIM affirms that Obasanjo’s historic clarion call to the Nation at its formative stage has profoundly validated the initiave of NIM’s Conveners to facilitate an all inclusive, non partisan pan Nigerian political third force to rescue the country from the impunity and lack lustre performance of traditional political elites in the PDP and APC among others
While endorsing and applauding OBJ historic statement on the way forward for Nigeria in the march towards the 2019, NIM wishes to clearly states its resolve to embrace the strategic counsel contained in the Elderstateman treaties on how the emergent Movement can rally and work with other Movements in building a major Coalition for Nigeria to save Nigerians from an inert political leadership
To this end, the leadership of NIM shall be ready, in the succeeding weeks, to enter into strategic talks and alliance with more platforms sharing similar philosophy and ideology towards the consolidation of the much desired Coalition for Nigeria advocated by the Former President”