Former National Chairmanif of All Progressive Grand Alliance,APGA, Victor Umeh, said yesterday that the coalition talks between the Labour Party (LP) and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, ended on June 15
Umeh, who is vying for senatorial seat on the platform of Labour Party (LP) said the talks "collapsed completely" because both parties could not agree on who will be the presidential candidate.
Speaking in an interview on channel television breakfast programme, sunrise Daily , Umeh faulted the presidential candidate of NNPP, Rabiu kwankwaso, for giving the impression that the talks between both parties were still in progress.
Umeh who disclosed that the Labour Party was no longer interested in "every other discussion" with the NNPP said we are surprised at the recent media blaze by the members of the New Nigeria People Party (NNPP) to continuously suggest that they were locked in a negotiation with the Labour Party, LP, to have a partnership or arrangement where the two parties will work together in 2023.
"We are surprised to continuously see this, we had this discussion precisely on June 15, more than three weeks ago. What necessitated the meeting was that NNPP and LP working together will give a better opportunity for the presidential election to be won and the two parties set two teams.
"Myself, Julius Aboreh, the Labour Party chairman who led our team, Doyin okupe went to that discussion on behalf of the Labour Party, while the NNPP put forward BUba Galadima, Abdullahi Buffa, former executive secretary of Tetfund, and ladipo Johnson.
"It was a three man team, we met for long hours, adjourned and we came back. When it became obvious that it had become a dialogue between a deaf and dumb person, we called off the negotiation." Said Victor Umeh