2019: Obasanjo Threatens To Quit Newly Launched Coalition For Nigeria If....
Olusegun Obasanjo, a former President of Nigeria has threatened to quit his newly championed Coalition for Nigeria Movement if try to go into partisan politics. He said the movement did not regard itself as a third force, but “it sees itself as a popular movement that can accommodate all Nigerians irrespective of their political interest or affiliations and will propel Nigeria forward.” The former President made the disclosure on Thursday at the secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Oke Ilewo area of Abeokuta, shortly after the Coalition for Nigeria Movement was inaugurated in Ogun State, and he was registered as a member of the movement. Obasanjo, while justifying the need for the CNM, argued that if all the instruments the country had used in the quest for nation building and governance since independence had failed, it was imperative to try new ways. He said, “If what we have tried in the past has not taken us to the Promised Land, we have to try somethin...