A member of the opposition coalition led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the immediate past Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has described as false and misleading the report that it has adopted the African Democratic Congress as its preferred political platform.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by a stakeholder of the coalition and former National Vice Chairman (North-West) of the All Progressives Congress, Salihu Lukman in Abuja on Thursday.
The former Director-General of the Progressive Governors Forum also denied the claim by an online medium that he has been appointed to head the secretariat of the coalition, adding that the reports may have been planted in the media
Lukman made the clarification in the wake of reports that the coalition had settled for ADC following the gale of defections by opposition leaders and federal lawmakers to the APC in the past few weeks.
Earlier, another key member of the coalition and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, had ruled out the Peoples Democratic Party, which he described as an ‘incurable virus’ in a previous exclusive interview with The PUNCH.
Lukman, however, assured all that once the negotiation is concluded, a formal announcement will be made by the leaders of the coalition
