APC insists it has fulfilled all requirements
THE political party that will eventually use
the APC acronym may be decided at the
nation’s courts, following the decision of
another APC to challenge the registration of
the merging All Progressives Congress (APC)
by the Independent national Electoral
Commission (INEC).
Barely six days after the merging, All
Progressives Congress (APC) approached the
INEC for registration as a political party,
another rival group, All Progressive Congress
of Nigeria (APCN) has threatened to take
INEC to court to secure an order restraining
it from registering any group with such an
acronym .
The threat was also coming as the INEC set
more hurdles for the merging opposition
parties before registration.
There is the fear, however, that the merger
group may suffer the same fate with the rival
African Peoples Congress (APC) which the
commission had earlier rejected its
application.
INEC sources Thursday disclosed to The
Guardian that the application for registration
by the merger group did not come with
names and addresses of their national
officers, as required by Section 222 (a) of
the Nigerian constitution, rather the group
submitted an application that was signed by
only the national chairmen, secretaries and
treasurers of the merging political parties.
But in a swift reaction to claims by the INEC,
a member of the opposition merger
committee, Osita Okechukwu noted that the
committee had fulfilled all the requirements
to merge into a single political party, adding
that the group carefully involved the
National Chairman of the ACN, the National
Secretary of the All Nigeria People’s Party
(ANPP) and the National Treasurer of the
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) who
endorsed the letter of request for
registration to INEC as interim leadership of
the party with its national office at Wuse
District in Abuja. He added that the office
was donated to the party by an official.
“Both INEC and the other group should
commend us for showing a little experience
in our request for registration. We carefully
used and involved the leadership of the
three merging parties who signed the letter.
We could not have planned to fail when we
involved the services of senior legal experts
in the country for advice and writing of the
letter to INEC,” he noted.
But in a move that suggests more trouble
and confusion for the merger group, a third
group, the All Progressives Congress of
Nigeria (APCN), threatened to take the INEC
to court over an alleged attempt to register
another group with a similar APC acronym.
The group, which is bearing the same name
and acronym with the merger parties (All
Progressive Congress) disclosed that it
commenced its registration process with
INEC with a letter of intent sent to the
commission on March 5, 2013, same time as
the controversial African Peoples Congress
which is also laying claim to the APC, adding
that INEC in a reply signed by its National
Secretary Abdulahi Kaugama, dated March
15 advised the group to change the name
claiming that a group had earlier come with
the same acronym for registration.
According to the National Secretary of the
group, Oguzie Ikechukwu, the group acted in
compliance with INEC advice and re-applied
for registration in March 28 as All
Progressive Congress of Nigeria (APCN). But
INEC again advised the group to still change
the name for the same reason that another
group with a similar acronym had
approached the commission for registration.
Wondering why INEC couldn’t register his
group as a political party even when it has
changed from APC to APCN, Ikechukwu
disclosed that the party had also in a similar
letter to INEC dated May 22 asked the
commission to furnish it with the name of
the group it claimed had earlier applied for
registration under such an acronym relying
on the freedom of Information Act.

This circus is becoming boring.
The Apc was already dead on arrival as it is marriage of strange bedfellows with conflicting interest and nobody willing to compromise.
Ordinary registration see wahala.
Their registration committee has three chairman,three secretaries etc.
Bunch of funny and unserious clowns.








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pistol: This circus is becoming boring.
The Apc was already dead on arrival as it is marriage of strange bedfellows with conflicting interest and nobody willing to compromise.
Ordinary registration see wahala.
Their registration committee has three chairman,three secretaries etc.
Bunch of funny and unserious clowns.








Btw am I first to comment?
Oshe baba thank you o.
Mtn thank you for a fast bis service.
Blackberry for providing the platform.
My mom for giving birth to me.
Oga seun for the insight to open the site.
And all nairalanders.
I thank you all.
Daz all.

All these problem will only make the authentic APC STRONGER.

Let wait and see bro!

arcis:

All these problem will only make the authentic APC STRONGER.

Let wait and see bro!

which of the parties do you is authentic. The APC woes continues.....

Tinubu and Buhari should brainstorm but let me suggest anoda
name for APC.Arab progressive congress.