The Prof. Pat Utomi-led National Consultative Front, has said contrary to speculations in some quarters, merger talks between Labour Party and the New Nigeria Peoples Party has not broken down.
Head, Public Affairs Directorate of the NC Front, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, and the National Publicity Secretary of the NNPP, Dr. Agbo Major, confirmed the development in separate telephone interviews with the VANGUARD, in Abuja, on Thursday.
The Pat Utomi-led NC Front spearheaded the coalition which midwifed the adoption of Peter Obi as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party.
Tanko explained that the candidature of Peter Obi has grown beyond his political platform the Labour Party and has grown into a mass movement which Nigerians across ethno-religious and sectional divides are identifying with.
This, he said, has made it imperative for all citizens irrespective of political party affiliations to identify with.
According to him, “The talks between the Labour Party which is the platform we in the NC Front, the #EndSARs and several other civil society groups have adopted to deliver this pan-Nigerian candidate to the best of our knowledge is still in talks with the NNPP which has some of our members.
