 Now political economist Professor Pat Utomi has debunked rumors that he and other prominent Nigerians are planning to announce the formation of a new political party on October the 1st. Utomi has recently been linked in the media with a third force called Rescue Nigeria Project to give the electorate an alternative platform to the brilliant all-progressive congress, APC, and the main opposition People's Democratic Party, PDP. Apart from Utomi, founders of the RNP include former Quarag governor Ahmed Abdul Fattai, former minister of education Professor Tundi Adiniro, former cross-relisted governor Donald Diouken, former national chairman of the Independence National Electoral Commission, INEC, professor at Hewer Jigga among others. Now INEC was recently reported as saying that 95 groups have recently applied to be registered as political parties, but Utomi, who spoke on the sideline to a press conference announcing the winners of the Year 2020 Zeke Prize and Leadership Award, organized by the Public Policy Research and Analysis Center, was hesitant to describe their movement as a political party.