Former NBA President, Dr Olisa Agbakoba addressing newsmen.
The Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM) has adopted Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) because the political party to contest the 2019 basic elections.
The political motion introduced its adoption of ANN at a gathering in Lagos on Wednesday.
NIM is chaired by former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba with Dr Abdul Jelil-Tafawa Balewa as its co-chair.
Prominent members of NIM and government members of the ANN current on the gathering consists of Debe Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Fela Durotoye, and Elishama Ideh each presidential aspirants below the ANN platform.
Speaking on the gathering, Agbakoba, who was represented by NIM’s Deputy Director-General, Nasir Kuta, mentioned the choice of NIM to fuse with ANN was borne out of the necessity to realise its imaginative and prescient for Nigeria and the restricted time to the final elections wouldn't allow NIM to register as a political party to pursue its imaginative and prescient.
“It is trite to state that almost all of Nigerians have been overwhelmed by the extant high quality of politics happening in our expensive nation as manifested by self-serving politics.
“For us in NIM, the entire essence of political management and authorities is the welfare and wellbeing of the citizenry.
“And given the timeline of the general elections, it was our resolve to adopt a fresh and untainted political party with elemental potential of delivering dividends of democracy towards realizing a new Nigeria of our dream”, he mentioned.