CUPP Leaders Defend Petition To Buhari

Nineteen leaders of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) have defended the group’s petition to President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate certain politicians in Kogi State over an alleged attempt to cause mayhem in a bid to disrupt the forthcoming elections.

In a statement they issued yesterday after meeting of the Steering Committee in Abuja, they distanced the coalition from a statement allegedly issued by one of their spokespersons against the petition.

They insisted that security agencies should investigate allegations that militants were imported into the state last year during a rally by an opposition politician.

They pointed out that the CUPP had its hierarchy of leadership and should not be confused as the sole ownership of a single individual, saying that “a letter signed by bonafide leaders and members of the coalition cannot in any way be referred to as fake.”

According to the leaders of the opposition force, their intervention was necessary in view of the implications of unfounded allegations against the Nigerian military at a time the citizens should give them all the support to tame insecurity in the country at large.