Merger: Fresh Crisis Looms In APC !

A fresh crisis may soon rock the All Progressives Congress as a splinter group in the All Nigeria Peoples Party is seeking a halt to the merger and registration of the APC.

The ANPP is one of the three main opposition parties spearheading the formation of APC to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections. The others are the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change.

Until last week, the ownership of the acronym, APC, had been a subject of controversy between the All Progressives Congress, the African Peoples Congress and the All Patriotic Citizens.

The All Patriotic Citizens dropped its name, while the Independent National Electoral Commission declined to register the African Peoples Congress which hitherto insisted on its name and the acronym.

The opposition parties had separately and collectively accused the PDP of sponsoring those behind the parties contending the APC acronym.

In calling for an end to ANPP’s involvement in the merger, the splinter group alleged that all the parties to the arrangement were not being treated equally.

The group, in a letter addressed to the ANPP National Chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, therefore gave the party’s leadership three weeks to pull out of the merger to avoid committing political suicide.

The letter dated April 2 and signed by the convener of the group and the Usuma ward Chairman of the ANPP, in Bwari Area Council, Abuja, Mallam Isa Bala, was copied to INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega. It is entilted, “MERGER/APC CRISIS: HOW WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED & DECEIVED BY BOLA TINUBU/ACN PARTY (THE SECRET TINUBU IS HIDING FROM US (MERGING PARTNERS).”

In the letter, the group alleged that the All progressives Congress was the brainchild of a former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, who had in 2006 formed a political group with the acronym, APC.

According to it , the same APC, which was registered in January 2006 transformed to the ACN in August 2006 under Tinubu’s leadership .

It argued that the same people who sponsored the “failed” APC were insisting on the acronym just to expand their political empire.

A copy of the letter which was obtained by The PUNCH in Abuja reads in part, “The merger could have also provided a strong two -party system in Nigeria which will produce a virile opposition as it is obtained in advanced democracies of the world.

“The gains of the merger cannot be over-emphasised as the generality of Nigerians had anxiously waited for its realisation.

“However, to our utter bewilderment, we have discovered the unholy, inordinate, ulterior motive of a few insatiable political gluttons, who are largely obsessed with the self-driven interest of expanding their political empire to the detriment of the greater majority of Nigerians.

“We the members of ANPP Concerned Stakeholders, therefore, call upon our national leadership to henceforth suspend involvement in the merger process until this and other questions are answered.

“It has become obvious that the merger partners are not treated as equal entities in the merger project, rather it is being dominated by the Bola Tinubu- led ACN.

“The interest of our great party is evidently, not adequately protected, in the present merging arrangement. Therefore, our party cannot surrender its identity that all our founding fathers have laboured for, to satisfy the interest of an individual.

“Consequently, we give our national leadership three weeks to suspend their involvement in the merger if this anomaly is not corrected. We also urge our national leadership to start discussing the possibility of forming alliance with the Congress for Progressive Change and other political parties on basis of mutual respect and equality for one another in the 2015 general elections .

“On this note, we encourage the CPC led by General (Muhammadu) Buhari to also review its stance and stake in the merger arrangement, as it is a hoax that can yield no political or democratic dividend.

“As earlier advocated, an alliance with CPC and other political parties where Gen. Buhari, a time-tested leader is presented as a presidential candidate, will garner an overwhelming acceptance from Nigerians.”

But the National Publicity Secretary of the ANPP, Chief Emma Eneuku, dismissed members of the group as impostors who were being used to distract the merger.

He said, “He (Bala) is not a member of our party. He is just one of those people they are using to distract what we are doing. A member of my party cannot just write INEC, we have a NEC (National Executive Committee) meeting on the 11th of this month, where everybody will come. Anyone who does not like what we are doing can approach the party. When somebody is working like this, you know he is not working for our party.”

Also, the National Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, recalled that Nigerians had been previously informed that the PDP would stop at nothing to frustrate the merger.

He said, “The ANPP has disowned the man. It is part of the antics to distract us from what we are doing. The ANPP says they don’t know him; he is an agent being used by the PDP to derail the process.

“The name APC did not even come from the ACN. If I can remember very well, it was the ANPP that even came with the name not us, what is his grouse? What has INEC got to do with this? I think he is just one who is seeking attention. We told Nigerians a few days ago that the Presidency will do everything to derail the merger; this is one of it.”

The CPC said the whole affair was part of the same script which showed the level of desperation of opponents of the merger.

“Their plan failed. It is not surprising that the PDP is making another failed attempt at scuttling the merger by using a political neophyte who is unaware of the legitimacy in our political system. Such is the confusion of the PDP company,” its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, said.

When contacted, INEC Director of Information, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger, said he was in a meeting and as such unavailable for comments.

Link: A fresh crisis may soon rock the All Progressives Congress as a splinter group in the All Nigeria Peoples Party is seeking a halt to the merger and registration of the APC.

The ANPP is one of the three main opposition parties spearheading the formation of APC to defeat the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections. The others are the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change.

Until last week, the ownership of the acronym, APC, had been a subject of controversy between the All Progressives Congress, the African Peoples Congress and the All Patriotic Citizens.

The All Patriotic Citizens dropped its name, while the Independent National Electoral Commission declined to register the African Peoples Congress which hitherto insisted on its name and the acronym.

The opposition parties had separately and collectively accused the PDP of sponsoring those behind the parties contending the APC acronym.

In calling for an end to ANPP’s involvement in the merger, the splinter group alleged that all the parties to the arrangement were not being treated equally.

The group, in a letter addressed to the ANPP National Chairman, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, therefore gave the party’s leadership three weeks to pull out of the merger to avoid committing political suicide.

The letter dated April 2 and signed by the convener of the group and the Usuma ward Chairman of the ANPP, in Bwari Area Council, Abuja, Mallam Isa Bala, was copied to INEC chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega. It is entilted, “MERGER/APC CRISIS: HOW WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED & DECEIVED BY BOLA TINUBU/ACN PARTY (THE SECRET TINUBU IS HIDING FROM US (MERGING PARTNERS).”

In the letter, the group alleged that the All progressives Congress was the brainchild of a former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu, who had in 2006 formed a political group with the acronym, APC.

According to it , the same APC, which was registered in January 2006 transformed to the ACN in August 2006 under Tinubu’s leadership .

It argued that the same people who sponsored the “failed” APC were insisting on the acronym just to expand their political empire.

A copy of the letter which was obtained by The PUNCH in Abuja reads in part, “The merger could have also provided a strong two -party system in Nigeria which will produce a virile opposition as it is obtained in advanced democracies of the world.

“The gains of the merger cannot be over-emphasised as the generality of Nigerians had anxiously waited for its realisation.

“However, to our utter bewilderment, we have discovered the unholy, inordinate, ulterior motive of a few insatiable political gluttons, who are largely obsessed with the self-driven interest of expanding their political empire to the detriment of the greater majority of Nigerians.

“We the members of ANPP Concerned Stakeholders, therefore, call upon our national leadership to henceforth suspend involvement in the merger process until this and other questions are answered.

“It has become obvious that the merger partners are not treated as equal entities in the merger project, rather it is being dominated by the Bola Tinubu- led ACN.

“The interest of our great party is evidently, not adequately protected, in the present merging arrangement. Therefore, our party cannot surrender its identity that all our founding fathers have laboured for, to satisfy the interest of an individual.

“Consequently, we give our national leadership three weeks to suspend their involvement in the merger if this anomaly is not corrected. We also urge our national leadership to start discussing the possibility of forming alliance with the Congress for Progressive Change and other political parties on basis of mutual respect and equality for one another in the 2015 general elections .

“On this note, we encourage the CPC led by General (Muhammadu) Buhari to also review its stance and stake in the merger arrangement, as it is a hoax that can yield no political or democratic dividend.

“As earlier advocated, an alliance with CPC and other political parties where Gen. Buhari, a time-tested leader is presented as a presidential candidate, will garner an overwhelming acceptance from Nigerians.”

But the National Publicity Secretary of the ANPP, Chief Emma Eneuku, dismissed members of the group as impostors who were being used to distract the merger.

He said, “He (Bala) is not a member of our party. He is just one of those people they are using to distract what we are doing. A member of my party cannot just write INEC, we have a NEC (National Executive Committee) meeting on the 11th of this month, where everybody will come. Anyone who does not like what we are doing can approach the party. When somebody is working like this, you know he is not working for our party.”

Also, the National Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, recalled that Nigerians had been previously informed that the PDP would stop at nothing to frustrate the merger.

He said, “The ANPP has disowned the man. It is part of the antics to distract us from what we are doing. The ANPP says they don’t know him; he is an agent being used by the PDP to derail the process.

“The name APC did not even come from the ACN. If I can remember very well, it was the ANPP that even came with the name not us, what is his grouse? What has INEC got to do with this? I think he is just one who is seeking attention. We told Nigerians a few days ago that the Presidency will do everything to derail the merger; this is one of it.”

The CPC said the whole affair was part of the same script which showed the level of desperation of opponents of the merger.

“Their plan failed. It is not surprising that the PDP is making another failed attempt at scuttling the merger by using a political neophyte who is unaware of the legitimacy in our political system. Such is the confusion of the PDP company,” its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, said.

When contacted, INEC Director of Information, Mr. Emmanuel Umenger, said he was in a meeting and as such unavailable for comments.

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Why is that south east always find a way to destroy anything good? Yet, when they get abandoned, they start crying Igbo hatred. Na waaa.

wales: Why is that south east always find a way to destroy anything good? Yet, when they get abandoned, they start crying Igbo hatred. Na waaa.

Didn't you read that the convener of the group is a certain Mallam Musa Bala of Bwari area council, does it sound like an Igbo name? Scoundrels and political mercenary for hire are everywhere! The group is made of insignificant attention seekers, led by a WARD party chairman!

take dat: Didn't you read that the convener of the group is a certain Mallam Musa Bala of Bwari area council, does it sound like an Igbo name?

I don't think he even read the article at all to be honest

wales: Why is that south east always find a way to destroy anything good? Yet, when they get abandoned, they start crying Igbo hatred. Na waaa.

What's good I may ask? If you are addressing APC, abeg guy sell that story of "goodness" to a bunch of gullible people. Since day 1, APC was never good. They were nothing but another photocopy of PDP using ethnic tribalism to try and pull a wool over others eyes. In addition, I was here when the News of APC merging was created on NL and on that thread, I remember greatly many predicted they would crumble before the election. Didn't that fake preacher, bakare or something, equally predict the same thing. Funny enough, the prediction is slowly happening. Interesting all the crisis coming off APC and this is just their first year as a political party. hmmm, our saviors they say. A savior that cannot even put it's own house in order. hmm interesting.

I no talk am before? Confusion, back-stabbing don start be dat whether na fidifi (PDP), hayceehen (ACN), shipishi (CPC) and others all na the same thing anyway make my Jona just enter come 2015 nonsense

wales:
Also, the National Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, recalled that Nigerians had been previously informed that the PDP would stop at nothing to frustrate the merger.

He said, “The ANPP has disowned the man. It is part of the antics to distract us from what we are doing. The ANPP says they don’t know him; he is an agent being used by the PDP to derail the process.

We told Nigerians a few days ago that the Presidency will do everything to derail the merger; this is one of it.”

The CPC said the whole affair was part of the same script which showed the level of desperation of opponents of the merger.

“Their plan failed. It is not surprising that the PDP is making another failed attempt at scuttling the merger by using a political neophyte who is unaware of the legitimacy in our political system. Such is the confusion of the PDP company,” its National Publicity Secretary, Rotimi Fashakin, said.

“We have said it before and will say it again that the coming together of any political parties or associations is of no concern to President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of these groups should stop running helter-skelter when no one is chasing them neither should they seek for scapegoats in the Presidency for their own self inflicted inadequacies ... Doyin Okupe

wales: Why is that south east always find a way to destroy anything good? Yet, when they get abandoned, they start crying Igbo hatred. Na waaa.

Stop showing us how foolish you are. I know you didn't read the post. By the way am waiting for ACN supporters to blame this ish on PDP because that's the only thing CPC, ACN is good at. I haven't seen the slightest chance of this merger dislodging PDP in the future because their selfish ambitions which they pursue will pull them down even before they start.

Greedy people!!! Laughing in IGEDE!!!

"Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not
By GEJ: whosoever shall gather together against FEEE DEEE FEEE shall fall for GEJ's sake."
ISAIAH 54:15

wales: Why is that south east always find a way to destroy anything good? Yet, when they get abandoned, they start crying Igbo hatred. Na waaa.

Shey if i curse you and your Father now, dem go ban me! pls be careful with your choice of words. bloody bigot

Mod front page sharp sharp!!!

Why are ACN, CPC etc always blaming PDP for everything? In the first place, do they think everyone in their parties are happy with the merger?.
I just hope the merger work cos if not, they will still come back and blame PDP for their failure.

#Singing...... Shey na like dis we go dey dey?

Playing kinky politics with the people's hope in Nigeria, I still do feel this Bala man's claim should be investigated for authenticity.

They are all the same, PDP, APC, CPC, ACN, et al ....

Haba.. Some people don dey decamp already to go back and share the AMNESTY money... SMH

i don hear

Surely they will gather and surely they will scatter and fall.

My advice: the killer party has budgetted billions to throw around jst to frustrate the merger. Grab all the awoof money u can, tell them foools what they wanna hear, go back and use thesame money to promote and strengthen the party.

Simple as that.

Why are they blaming PDP always for their failures ? Did PDP tell them not to register APC till now ? What a shame!

This APC is becoming more like tales by moonlight we watch on NTA by 4pm on sunday, back in those days.
Abeg let them packup let another party comeup to fight the big headed monster-pdp..
Am tired of all these

Its a shame!!
I know that they will fail!


Association of PolitHiEfs Congress

Failed PdP members who all came back to haunt pDp!!

All of them are thieves!! Selfish ones!
BuHaRi plus Elrufai!! Thieves
Tinubu and co, thief!!
All of them!!




They are looking for a new way to initiate thiefry!!

omenka: My advice: the killer party has budgetted billions to throw around jst to frustrate the merger. Grab all the awoof money u can, tell them foools what they wanna hear, go back and use thesame money to promote and strengthen the party.

Simple as that.

Nsi ju gi onu

Where are those APC numb heads ?

Owing to the imperative the devil u know is better than the Angel u don't know. Same is applicable here, we should continue with PDP, rather than all these hungry and desperate power seekers, that will even do worst things when granted the opportunity to propel governance in this country. All we should be after is who will do it right for the masses and the electorates that voted them into power, else forget it Nigeria and her leaders are known for one thing CORRUPTION. Party is not the problem, but who is wearing the party colour and support to the battle field.

High time we realize all these bull shit, and face the real thing, which is GOOD REPRESENTATION at all levels in our political offices. Moreso, we should learn to vote new blood into power and make sure we protect our votes rather than seeing it as what is my business, it is EVERYBODY'S business if we don't know. The time is now, let's wake from our slumber before it'll be late. A word is enough for a wise and we should make hay while the sun shines. Cheers and happy weekend to all NLs.

tomakint: I no talk am before? Confusion, back-stabbing don start be dat whether na fidifi (PDP), hayceehen (ACN), shipishi (CPC) and others all na the same thing anyway make my Jona just enter come 2015 nonsense

GEJ just made me angry by trying to give Amnesty to terrorist that have killed thousand of Christians and Hundreds of Churches and Christians proparties destroyed! Now, i dont want a Northerner rule Nigeria and i dont want a Southerner that will give Amnesty to a terrorist group to rule, too. Now, where would i turn to...? I HATE ONE NIGERIA.

ANPP no need to announce, we know want we want, Nigerians is tired of this government, whether PDP, ANPP, Nigerians are wiser now

Their aim is not serve Nigerian but to dethrone PDP so that they will also loot that is why you see confusion everywhere. Surely they shall gather:::::::::::::::::::::::::::they will surely scatter.

Maxymilliano:

“We have said it before and will say it again that the coming together of any political parties or associations is of no concern to President Goodluck Jonathan and the leadership of these groups should stop running helter-skelter when no one is chasing them neither should they seek for scapegoats in the Presidency for their own self inflicted inadequacies ... Doyin Okupe

Good talk, but when the GEJ lead government is legalising terrorism (granting of amnesty to boko haram)... What do you think will be his fate come 2015? Let me guess, 2015 will be GEJ against Nigerians.