On Sunday, the Action Alliance (AA) declared that it will not be supporting former vice president Atiku Abubakar as its candidate for the presidency in the election scheduled for next Saturday.

In a statement released in Abuja, the National Chairman of AA, Dr. Adekunle Omo-Aje, said that neither the party nor its presidential candidate had any such agreement or plans.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), AA, under the leadership of Mr. Kenneth Udeze, who was fired as national chairman, and four other political parties chose Mr. Abubakar as their presidential candidate for the election on February 25 on Saturday.

Other parties include the National Rescue Movement, African Democratic Congress, Allied Peoples Movement, and African Democratic Congress (NRM).

Reacting, Omo-Aje said: “Our attention has been drawn to a fabrication and fraudulent arrangement, purportedly with some named political parties touching on stepping down for presidential candidate of People Democratic Party Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.

“We make bold here to say emphatically that our party, Action Alliance, has no such arrangement at all, nor was anything as such ever contemplated among our ranks.

“This is to further reiterate for the umpteenth time that our party, Action Alliance, is never thinking of any kind of collaboration with any political party or any candidate whatsoever.”

According to him, ''we had warned the general public of the activities of some political scavengers assembled by the recalcitrant usurper, who has been adjudged as a “meddlesome interloper” by a High Court of the land''.

“Kenneth Obideche Udeze is a parasite that feeds on the blood of docile and gullible politician; he is a Merchant of Venice.

“As a political party of repute, Action Alliance has hosted series of world press conferences to alert the general public that, Kenneth Obideche Udeze is not even a member of our party let alone having any locus standi to speak or act for, or on behalf of the party anywhere, anytime.

“This, we did, to safe would-be victims of this fraudulent political venture from getting defrauded.

“If anyone thereafter gets entangled in his antics and scam expertise, our party, Action Alliance, will be absolved of any associated guilt.

“Our party, Action Alliance, has a presidential candidate that is neither being withdrawn nor dropped.

“So, it is appalling to think that some political scouts without circumspect could still get scammed by this certified interloper, as if they were charmed to blind folds,” he said.

According to him, we provided excerpts from Federal High Court (FHC) and Court of Appeal judgements to support our positions here, robbing him in his seeming journey as a usurper, an interloper, and a meddling busybody.