Why I Will Boycott ANN National Convention – Ikubese

Dr. Thomas-Wilson Ikubese, a Presidential Aspirant under the auspices of the Alliance for New Nigeria(ANN) says he will boycott the Party convention scheduled to hold on the 11th of August 2018.

Ikubese in a Press statement sent to nigeriancablenewsonline.com stated “sponsored unholy infiltration from the corrupt political oligarchy with intent to hijack the Party” as a reason for his decision.

Below is the Statement Unedited:

WHY I WILL NOT BE ATTENDING THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE ALLIANCE FOR NEW NIGERIA (ANN) ON 11th AUGUST 2018

When on 24th July 2017 I declared to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, my aspiration was and still is to align with progressives to birthing a functional nation, using a credible political platform. 

My followers and myself joined the National Conscience Party (NCP) in September 2017, but exited in a Press Conference on 15th May 2018, when we came to the sad realisation that the national leadership of the Party has compromised the ideology of the founder, Chief Gani Fawehinmi and the Party has derailed from its ideals and has been hijacked by political traders who now masquerade as “comrades”. 

On 29th May 2018, my followers and I joined the Alliance for New Nigeria, alongside the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), which adopted the Party as its political platform for the execution of the 2019 Presidential election.

The ANN attracted credible, visionary, altruistic new generation presidential aspirants like Fela Durotoye, Dr Mrs Elishama Ideh and myself because of its appeal and what it stands for…”the difference”

However, unfolding events in the past couple of weeks have given me and many other stakeholders cause to worry as the ideals of the Party is now being threatened by sponsored unholy infiltration from the corrupt political oligarchy with intent to hijack the Party as to truncating its vision and mission to truly be different and salvage Nigerians from years of poor governance.

These very disturbing issues have been raised before the national leadership of the Party and I hope it will be addressed soonest in the interest of millions of Nigerians who are looking up to the ANN to provide the much awaited salvation for our nation. 

As at today 10th August 2018, I remain a member of the ANN, but will not be attending the National Convetion tomorrow Saturday  11th August, so much so until these matters are addressed by the leadership of the Party as I would not want my name appended to a compromised process that might throw up a system worse than the ones we are criticising today!

A New Nigeria is possible 

Together we can 

#YesWeFit 

Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese 
Convener, YesWeFit Revolutionary Movement. 
Presidential Aspirant, Alliance for New Nigeria. 

10th August, 2018

Nigerian Cable News has also been reliably informed that two other Presidential Aspirants of ANN, Dr. Mrs Elishama Ideh and Mr. Fela Durotoye had stated earlier today, that they will not be attending the National Convention of the Party, citing similar reasons.