Readers of this column will know that it has continuously advocated coalition between the opposition forces as a possible and necessary condition for the removal of the PPP from government, and the institutionalisation of a more adequate national governance arrangement. The formation of the coalition between APNU and the AFC is, therefore, in my view a progressive step in the right direction.
But in my construct, the coalition is a means to the search for good governance in our ethnic and political context, and not an end in itself or simply a means to gain and hold political office.
Notwithstanding this, the first (but not the most important) task of the coalition is to win government, but this cannot be achieved by the mere fact of coalescing. Any unity must be bolstered by a creative strategy that must include a well-designed and time-constrained programmatic platform, and an innovative distribution of power positions structured to
