The leadership of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Sunday held exploratory talks in Lagos ahead of the all-important presidential election on Saturday, THISDAY can report.
The two parties had entered into an agreement to see how they could work together in order to wrest power from the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which has been in government since 1999.
The original plan was for the party that wins more National Assembly seats to produce a joint presidential candidate in an alliance, while the party that comes second would produce the leadership of the National Assembly.
Under the arrangement, ACN is in a position to field Malam Nuhu Ribadu as the candidate of the alliance since it has won more seats than CPC which was initially thought to be very strong in the North.
It is yet unclear how the agreement will now work out with the turn of events.
As at Sunday night, ACN had won 13 senatorial seats of while CPC could only boast six in the official results declared so far.
Insiders are of the opinion that an alliance had become inevitable no matter the obstacles because there was no way PDP would not steamroll the other parties in the election without an united opposition.
The talks will continue Monday.