Political economist Pat Utom hasi revealed that he initiated discussions with presidential candidates Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of the Labour Party, and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People’s Party to establish a new political party.
Utomi said the new political party will stand as a formidable force against the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led by President Bola Tinubu.
Featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today programme, the professor said the new party will be a clean start, with ideas and a clear agenda.
He said: “I talked to several of the presidential candidates in the last election about this track we are traveling.
“I have had conversations with Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, I have had conversations with Engineer Rabiu Kwankwaso, I have had conversations with Peter Gregory Obi and people like Ralph Okey Nwosu of ADC and some of the people who probably constitute the base.
“It is actually a clean start. You have to start from the premise that Nigeria has not had a political party since 1999 and let’s be very honest with ourselves, what we have managed is to create platforms that enable machine politics from which to grab power usually for the purposes of state capture.
“We want to calm down now, design a real political party with clear ideas of how you will become part of it, what you will do in it and therefore you accept to do or not to do before you come into it.
“It is where there will be clear agenda, a party plan that the day you arrive in office, everybody from permanent secretary to level 8 officer know what to do every day to move Nigeria to a certain level.”
