Leaders of the three merging parties
are expected to take their battle to the
Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof.
Attahiru Jega, today in Abuja.
Besides, INEC will investigate into the
sponsors, offices and all claims of the
“emergency” African Peoples Congress
(APC).
A top official of the commission said it
should not be taken for granted by the
public that the proxy party had been
registered.
As at press time, a search conducted
on the roll of the Abuja branch of the
Nigerian Bar Association showed that
Barrister Nwokorie Samuel Chinedu, the
man who wrote to INEC about the proxy
APC, is not a member of the local
chapter.
But anxious members of the opposition
parties may approach the National
Headquarters of the NBA to ascertain
his records.
The national chairmen and secretaries
of the Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party
(ANPP) and the Congress for
Progressive Change are expected to
meet with Jega today.
But it was learnt that Jega, who is
away to South Africa , may be
represented by the acting chairman,
Dr. Abdulkadir Oniyangi.
A source, who spoke in confidence,
said: “The leaders of the three parties
going into merger with other parties
are going to meet with the INEC
chairman and his team on the so-
called application for registration by
the proxy APC.
“These leaders will raise issues based
on the evidence at their disposal and
rub minds with INEC leadership.
“We will also seize the opportunity to
tell INEC the truth.”
An INEC official confirmed the
commission would look into all claims by
the “proxy” APC.
“Go and look at the law governing
registration of parties, we are
mandated to conduct due diligence
before registration. Our team will go
out to verify the minutest claim of the
APC, which has submitted only a letter
of intent so far.
“INEC does not act like a dummy and
it is not conniving with any political
party”, the official said, adding:
“This new group has not been
registered as a party at all. At the end
of the day, there may be no basis for
registering this APC that is causing
political ripples in the country.
“We want to appeal to Nigerians to be
patient with INEC. We will not
compromise at all.”
The identity of Chinedu, who submitted
a letter of intent for the registration
of the proxy APC, remained the subject
of a big controversy yesterday.
A woman human rights lawyer, who
conducted a search at the local branch
of NBA, said: “We have checked the
Bar records in Abuja; he is not one of
our members. Maybe, he belongs to
another branch.
“What some of us have chosen to do is
to get in touch with the national
headquarters of NBA for clarification
on his status. We are keeping vigil for
democracy; we do not want to return
to the era of Association for Better
Nigeria (ABN), which scuttled the
transition programme in 1993.”

Source http://thenationonlineng.net/new/news/proxy-apc-acn-anpp-cpc-take-battle-to-jega-today/

Interesting but Chinedu has returned to ladipo

^ No, he returned to Aba!

INEC gradually retracing its footsteps. Conducting a due diligence to verify the claims of the phantom APC ought to have come first before going to the media to heat up the polity!

The original APC will get the name... however they have just shown themselves as unserious.. how can they forget or overlook something as critical as sending a letter of intent to INEC before singing APC all over Nigeria..
Whoever is behind the second APC has achieved his purpose.... If the cannot register a name how will they be commited to "due process"....

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KokoBeware: The original APC will get the name... however they have just shown themselves as unserious.. how can they forget or overlook something as critical as sending a letter of intent to INEC before singing APC all over Nigeria..
Whoever is behind the second APC has achieved his purpose.... If the cannot register a name how will they be commited to "due process"....

What due process are you talking about? Have you studied the section in the electoral act concerning mergers and alliances, or you think you just submit a letter of intent to INEC, without fulfilling the necessary requirement? Any merger would first have to come out with a logo, party name, party constitution, manifesto, submit a letter of notification from each parties involved in the merger after having done their conventions, and then the general convention before INEC can register the new party. You'll agree with me that these processes takes time, even if the known APC submit its letter of intent to INEC before satisfying these requirements it still does not give them the right/claim to the name/acronym picked. What they are doing now is the "due process" involved in party registration, now they have a name, a logo, manifesto. The next will be their respective conventions, then a general convention.

There is nothing wrong if we don't like the political actors involved in the merger, but we shouldn't encourage those willing to truncate our democracy by cutting corners like the "impostor" lawyer acting as the attorney to the faceless APC, who submitted a letter of intent that has a fake address!

KokoBeware: The original APC will get the name... however they have just shown themselves as unserious.. how can they forget or overlook something as critical as sending a letter of intent to INEC before singing APC all over Nigeria..
Whoever is behind the second APC has achieved his purpose.... If the cannot register a name how will they be commited to "due process"....

I have said this time without number that APC merger is an evolution and a true evolution is process that takes time. They need to trend soft so as not upset any partner in the process, everything must be negociated and they will do alot of talking. imagine apga pulling out after they ve submited letter of intent including apga.
I will only blame pdp for playing childish and despiration game instead of being mature and do things that will give electorate no other choice than to vote 4 them, afterall they are in power and still have the capacity to do it.