As Mega Party APC Emerges: ACN, ANPP, CPC submit certificates to INEC April
The three political parties that merged
to form the All Progressive Congress are to submit their certificates of
registration to the Independent National Electoral Commission in April.
This is after they must have held special conventions to ratify their merger.
The three parties are the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party.
Investigations by our correspondent in
Abuja on Wednesday, after the meeting of the merger committees of the
three parties, confirmed this.
The merger committee for the three
parties, headed by Chief Tom Ikimi on Wednesday morning, received the
logo, motto and slogan of the yet-to-be registered party.
Also submitted were the drafts of
manifesto, constitution and INEC/legal compliance from the three
committees, which were given two weeks deadline to submit their reports
when they were inaugurated a few
days ago.
The National Publicity Secretary of the
ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who is also a member of the merger committee,
told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the new party’s logo, slogan
and motto were unanimously adopted after the meeting of the larger
committee and the opposition alliance governors which ended late on
Tuesday night.
He said contrary to the rumours in some quarters the logo, slogan and motto were not imposed on the new party by the governors.
He said the committee worked in harmony
with the alliance governors and that there was no member of the
committee that objected to the logo, slogan or motto when they were
presented for adoption at the meeting.
Mohammed said, “Only the merger committee has the final authority on any issue about the proposed merger.
“The governors explained that all their
decisions arrived at in their own meeting was presented to the larger
committee for approval and we all deliberated on them and arrived at a
consensus on the grounds that there must be give and take by all the
intending merger political parties.
“Amazingly, at Tuesday”s meeting, there
was no descent from any group after the meeting of the governors with
the merger committee.”
