A factional chairman of the National Conscience Party (NCP) in Lagos, Comrade Bayo Ogunleye, has said the national chairman of the party, Dr. Yunusa Tanko, singlehandedly joined the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP).
He said the founder of the party, late Gani Fawehinmi, would be turning in his grave in agony, saying the decision to join the coalition by Tanko ran contrary to the ideology of the party.
NCP is among the about 30 political parties which formed a coalition to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Tanko had justified the decision in an earlier chat with our correspondent when he said he got the approval of members of the party to go into the alliance which, he explained, did not include merger.
He said: “The coalition is about forming a government. Majority of us believe that the government has not delivered on its promises to the Nigerian people.
“And for me as the National Chairman of NCP, I was given an express approval. Right from the beginning, the way we are going, we cannot win anything in this party and it has been a history of NCP not winning election, how long can we continue?” he asked.
But Comrade Ogunleye insisted that Fawehinmi would be lamenting that the party he founded aligned with those responsible for the present sorry state of the country.
“Tanko unilaterally signed that Memorandum of Understanding (MoU),” he said.
He said since 2016, the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NCP had not been held and wondered where Tanko secured members’ mandate to be part of CUPP.
