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Fashola Govs,and old Skool Top Politicians Storm Lagos June 12 Rally

Posted by 9jabook.com on June 9, 2009 at 12:00pm

Leaders and proponents of the proposed mega party in the country will on June 12 rally eminent Nigerians to support their alternative bill on electoral reform before it goes to the National Assembly. The mega party movement announced last week in Abuja that it would send an alternative bill on electoral reform to the National Assembly, even as the legislature is already discussing six bills forwarded by the presidency. Briefing the press in Abuja at the weekend, Mr Wale Okunniyi, the group's director of organisation, said leaders of the mega party would, at a meeting with the leadership of labour and civil society groups adopt the final draft, ahead of the electoral reform rally on Friday, where the bill would be presented for mass mobilisation. The secretariat of the mega party movement also disclosed that the electoral reform rally would feature goodwill/solidarity speeches as well as signatures from eminent Nigerians for endorsing the alternative bill. According to the group, those already invited to the rally are frontline political allies like former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and former governors like Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Olusegun Osoba, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa and Alhaji Lam Adesina. "Governor Olusegun Mimiko and Comrade Governor Adams Oshiomhole are billed to speak at the gathering, while Governor Peter Obi, Governor Ikedia Ohakim, Governor Theodore Orji among other progressive governors, are also invited to play important roles at the rally", Okunniyi said. "Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State is slated to be the chief host of the historic celebration, which will hold at the Lagos Airport Hotel at 10am prompt", he said. It will be recalled that the leaders of political parties in the new movement, last Friday at Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, resolved to field one single presidential candidate to contest the next election on the platform of the mega party. Some notable political leaders, including the presidential candidate of the ANPP, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji Atiku Abubarkar, who was represented by Alhaji Ahmed Yusuf from Taraba State, and the National Chairman of the Labour Party, Mr Dan Nwanyanwu, among others, also openly declared their membership of the mega party at the summit. The group further clarified that its proposed national summit and the launching of the mega party will both take place before the last quarter of this year.
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