Following their application before the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, seeking the registration of a new political party, leaders of the proposed anti-Tinubu coalition, who are pushing for the All Democratic Alliance, ADA, have commenced mass mobilisation across the country, Vanguard has learned.
Vanguard also gathered that the leaders of the proposed party are also upbeat about being registered by the electoral commission.
Members of the anti-Tinubu coalition include former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Rivers State governor, Mr Rotimi Amaechi; his Kaduna State counterpart, Nasir El-Rufai, the convener of the League of Northern Democrats, Dr Umar Ardo and a host of others.
The group had considered joining an existing political party which saw the African Democratic Congress, ADC, and the Social Democratic Party, SDP, jostling to out do each other to be considered.
However, several members of the coalition expressed concerns over the internal wrangling within existing parties which in some cases had led to litigations.
In its push for a new party, the association’s Protem National Chairman, Chief Akin A Rickets, in a letter to INEC said: “Application for registration as a political party. We respectfully write to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, requesting the registration of our association, the All Democratic Alliance, ADA, as a political party.”
Mass mobilization
However, the leaders of ADA, Vanguard gathered, have commenced mass mobilisation across the country.
Despite its application before INEC, multiple sources told Vanguard that the process of crystalisation into a full, formidable opposition political party is still in a state of flux.
It was further gathered that consultations across the six geo-political zones are ongoing to woo politicians and stakeholders to join the fold.
Though the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said it would not join the anti-Tinubu coalition, Vanguard was reliably informed that “some other leaders of PDP, All Progressives Congress, APC, and Labour Party, LP, are arrowheads of this coalition.”
Governors elected on the platform of the PDP have already ruled out the possibility of a merger or coalition with any other political party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
However, there are strong indications that the desire to wrest power from the ruling APC may inspire a grand coalition.