Mr. Garri:
Yes ooo!!

Its not a joke anymore, it's a fact:

PDP has merged with INEC...

We are watching....

this is war i mean its suspicious where were ther befor d merger?

From another thread:- www.nairaland.com/1221592/controversy-over-ownership-apc

Threat to APC: PDP, ACN, CPC in
war of words
On March 11, 2013 · In Headlines
2:09 am
..
By Emmanuel Aziken, Political
Editor
LAGOS — The parties in the
fledgling All Progressive Congress,
APC, were last night engaged in a
war of words with the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, over
alleged plans by the ruling party to
sabotage their merger.
The Action Congress of Nigeria,
ACN, and the Congress for
Progressive Change, CPC, were
furious over what they claimed to
be plans by the PDP to sponsor
the registration of a new party to
be known as the African Peoples
Congress, APC.
The new political association with
the same acronym with the mega
opposition party, it was alleged, is
being sponsored to deny the
mega opposition party registration
before the Independent National
Electoral Commission, INEC.
The PDP in a reaction denied the
claim, saying it would not be held
liable for the negligence and
incompetence of the merger
parties it described as “our grossly
inferior opponents.”
The plan by the opposition
political parties to merge into APC
ran into trouble on account of the
proposal for the registration of
another party to be known as the
African Peoples Congress. The
sponsors of the new party could
not be identified last night.
Registration remains open —INEC
INEC officials contacted on the
matter, yesterday, said registration
remained open to either of the
two parties which first met its
conditions for registration.
Chief Press Secretary to the INEC
Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu,
confirmed that the commission
received a proposal for the
registration of the African Peoples
Congress, APC, last week but
would not confirm the identity of
the sponsors.
Asked of the implications, Idowu
said the fate of the two proposals
would depend on the provisions
of the law.
He said: “What the law requires is
that if a group applies and the law
has already provided for things to
be met, like a checklist, it is not a
matter of INEC cherry picking or
preferences. There is a checklist
and once a group meets that
checklist, any group that meets
that checklist is registered with that
name.”
Asked if two parties could bear the
same acronym, Idowu said:
“That is what I said, I doubt it, I
doubt it, but the point I am
making is that it is an application
and whoever meets the conditions
first gets registered.”
ACN, CPC finger PDP
The ACN and the CPC were,
however, not hesitant in
identifying the PDP as sponsor of
the new party which they claimed
was being pushed as a deliberate
effort to deny their mega party
registration.
“If INEC refuses to register the All
Progressives Congress, APC, when
all the legal requirements have
been met, the protest in Tahrir
Square in Egypt will be a child’s
play compared to what we will do
at the Eagle Square,” the ACN’s
national publicity secretary, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed said in a
statement, yesterday.
“We say this because we are
aware that the PDP, which is
mortally afraid of the rise and rise
of the APC, is behind the phantom
African Peoples Congress which
has applied to INEC for
registration, in an effort to instigate
an acronym crisis and give INEC a
reason, if it needs any, not to
register the All Progressives
Congress.
“But we will like to warn that if
indeed INEC has not merged with
the PDP, as one of our leaders,
Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has
brilliantly said, then we do hope
that the electoral body, which by
the way is not unaware of the All
Progressives Congress as the
authentic APC, will not succumb to
the evil machinations of the
apprehensive PDP.
“It is a PDP plan in collusion with
INEC but we will not take it lightly
with them and all their plans will
come to nothing. Indeed, we are
very much aware of that and it
won’t work, it will fail. We are just
watching the INEC as an umpire to
check them.
“We have already given indication
and the whole world has heard us
that we are APC and if they are
trying to bring in another APC it
won’t work.”
PDP denies allegations
But denying any involvement of
the PDP in the alleged plans, the
party’s national publicity secretary,
Chief Olisa Metuh, told Vanguard,
yesterday: “The PDP is totally
unaware of the status of the APC
registration. We are unconcerned
and completely unperturbed. In
the words of our Board of
Trustees’ chairman ‘we wish them
well’.
“PDP cannot be held liable for any
negligence and/or incompetence
on the part of our grossly inferior
opponents.”
The legacy parties in the APC
announced their plans for merger
on February 6, 2013 and
forwarded a formal letter to INEC
to that effect on March 6.
Mohammed was, however,
insistent last night that INEC had a
constructive knowledge of their
proposal since last month when
they made their intentions known.
Yerima’s arrest, move to clamp
down on opposition
The ACN, meanwhile, has flayed
Saturday’s arrest of Senator
Ahmed Yerima, describing the
action of the security agencies in
Kaduna as a demonstration of the
administration’s plans to clamp
down on the opposition.
The party’s spokesman,
Mohammed in a statement said
the arrest of Senator Yerima for
alleged incitement was indicative
of the fact that the administration
is jittery.
The party said Senator Yerima did
not say anything extraordinary by
threatening a protest, because
protests are an integral part of
liberal democracy and cannot be
wished away or banned by
anyone.
The party said it expects more
arrests, investigations by anti-
corruption agencies and other acts
aimed at intimidating its leaders in
the weeks and months ahead, but
warned the Federal Government
to make sure it had enough prison
space to accommodate those it
plans to arrest.
Mohammed said: “After all, it is
generally believed that the recent
redeployment of Police
Commissioners in the states was
done in readiness for the pre-2015
clampdown on the opposition.
“We know the arrest of Senator
Yerima is just a tip of the iceberg,
as the PDP-controlled Federal
Government gets ready to bare its
fangs. But we must warn that
fascism can never prevail over
liberal democracy.’’
http://
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/
threat-to-apc-pdp-acn-cpc-in-war-
of-words/

A lot of crap here.
1. Parties are registered after they have had a chance, APC, that's the official one that has applied to INEC, has not had any chance and must be given one.

Reality Check:
INEC must give the applicant a reasonable time to meet it requirement, having been officially informed of its intention to use APC. It is only after that period of at least a year, that the name should be open to any other applicant. That's common sense, and it means the Tinubu/ Buhari's APC can not be registered with the name until after a year when African Progressive Congress must have exhausted their chance.
Bottom Line: it is no longer feasible for the loud mouthed merger to use APC, else they will see court cases that will nullify any elections they win.
ADViCE: Accept defeat, find a new name. Too bad for the sunk cost on media.

2ru-talk:
I am not a fan of PDP but Tinubu, Buhari and their cohorts made a very childish mistake. Have they forgotten that it is "politics"? Nigeria for that matter. This is what pride can beget. PDP is a secret society with bunch of criminals so they have every strategy to outsmart their opponents. "APC" oya lets reverse to CAP = Congress for All Progressives. Backward never.

unfortunately there is CAP already. You can check my thread on All political Parties Acronyms.

Instead of this clowns screaming, why don't they quickly organise their own 'faceless' group and name it 'Africana peoples congress' so as to frustrate their moves? Moreso buhari/tinubu APC can also use alliance progressive congress, alliance progress congress, action progressive congregation, tehehe, lol. Bunch of clowns!

one piece of advice




stock ur house with enough food cos 2015 will be costly
and if
you love ur life dearly move down to your village

I'm so so sad. All Progressive Congress has created more than enough publicity to let one unknown 'African whatever' to just walk away with APC.

PointB:
Anyway from another thread:
My documents are ready. I have a better chance of registering a party as All Patriots Congress (APC) than All Progressives Congress have of registering theirs.
All Progressives Congress is simply not serious!

Not everybody that has God-given talent can use it in such a way that God itself will be happy with him or her. What is happening here is a pure cheating.

Paul John:

All progressives congress hasn't been registered and yes the 'APC' can be used by any party. You should know that when everything is set and the parties merging to form the APC have concluded, all positions these merging parties have won automatically belongs to the newly formed APC.
Also, the African people's congress is not qualified to be registered, this party is still the weakest party in Nigeria today, parties that have won at least a local government were de-registered for being too weak, while African people's congress was so strong even without any position presently on ground and was registered.
Isn't that funny?!

Even without using APC as it identity, no new party is qualified to be formed with the recent actions INEC took of parties de-registration, except sets of people who have won a position under an existing party are cropped out to form the party, which is not the case for 'African people's party.
But because it's 'APC' that was chosen, access granted. Lol

Dude, take a chill pill. This new(silent) APC is yet to contest any political office.. I suppose what INEC wld consider is their level of seriously. Things like having a head office in abuja, and offices in at least 20 states of d federation. Besides, they r yet to make a public statement, and until then u never know their strength. Assuming the party is made up of technocrats interested in politics, peeps like Pat Utomi, Ben Bruce and their contemporaries... Just saying.

Orikinla: Our revolution will be live on the CNN.

Lol! No b only CNN, u wey b say na knock out(banger) go send u inside ur house..... Kuma lock door sef. Na today?

u

Orikinla: Our revolution will be live on the CNN.

Lol! No b only CNN, u wey b say na knock out(banger) go send u inside ur house..... Kuma lock door sef. Na today?

This is a disgrace and attack on the collective future of Nigerians

This is no time for silly and cynical politics that is simply self defeating

Let all those who want power campaign and canvass for votes fairly

INEC owes herself and Nigerians to reject the application of this so called African People's Congress

because Historically INEC voting cards use abbreviations i.e. PDP for People Democratic Party . . . . Hence African People's Congress simply can not co-exist with All Progressive Congress!!!!!

donwilz: All your problems must be caused by PDP... If a man runs mad, you will find a way to connect it to PDP.. It's a boring cliche already... Find something new...

Tell him bro. Some Nigerians have the habit of blaming successful organisations/people for their problems.

How can INEC currently embarking on party deregistration then go on to register a faceless party? Ewww PDP is gone 2015....thier despiration can only be compared to what happened in thier dying days in Edo State.

Omo_Tier1: How can INEC currently embarking on party deregistration then go on to register a faceless party? Ewww PDP is gone 2015....thier despiration can only be compared to what happened in thier dying days in Edo State.

This the exact problem and the same reason the opposition lost in 2011. Sentimentalism!!
See, what I would expect apc supporters to do is to castigate thier leaders and let them know that the task of dislodging the PDP is not for unserious minds. That party is a multi billion dollar one sponsored by all the Nigerians listed on the forbes list and all the owners of oil blocks. If you want to dislodge such a party, you come with tact and strategy. You need to think out of the box. Al Qaeda struck America with an unexpected and very simple strategy. David struck Goliath with an unexpected and very simple strategy.

If an antelope must kill a lion, it must find a different kind of strategy that would catch the lion in absolute unpreparedness. The only way it could do that is to lead the lion to the ditch and leave it hanging! If the APC must outwit the PDP, it must take it by surprise. No boasting, No noise making! Simply night time strategising!!

Instead of going to INEC to register their party, they are busy accumulating bombs for boko

It is a common law principle that the first in time prevails. I think INEC should go ahead and register the African People’s Congress if they met the conditions for registration. All Progressive Congress should adopt another name. By the way, I don’t like the acronym (APC). They should choose an ideological name like Labour party. E.g, Conservative, Tea, Green, Independent, Republican, Referendum etc

See people the initial intention of APGA founding fathers was to name it UPGA but INEC denied them cause of the first republic UPGA(NCNC + AG) merger that even failed. So even if African progressive congress has being de registered their acronym is still retired. May be name like United progressive alliance(UPA). They should this their owambe and do the right thing first !4 going public.

take dat: The parties involved in the coalition had earlier notified INEC of their intention to go into a merger. There are certain procedures/requirements to be fulfilled by the parties, before approaching INEC for a name change. During the course of fulfilling those requirements, they came up with a name so as to prove their seriousness and convince cynics of their readiness and true intention. Agreed that meeting the requirements requested by INEC would take time, there is nothing wrong if INEC called their attention to the other association requesting the same acronym as chosen by the coalition. The only thing wrong with it was the hush-hush manner the other party rushed to INEC. That was why I asked for the time and when the party approached INEC, and who the major movers of the party are. The desperation involved in packaging the other party, is the reason why some of us are crying foul!

There is nothing sacrosanct about APC, and like you said, party names don't win elections. I am sure the political actors involved in the coalition are savvy enough to have a Plan B and C. They are well aware that PDP will make moves to stymie the merger!

The biggest challenge with Nigerian youths is understanding. We are just too quick to lay blames on PDP or GEJ for everything and even for our own wrong doings. From the post, INEC never said they have registered any APC be it the fake or the so called original APC. They are only making it public that they have been approached for registration and so, the so called original can come out with a case if any that they are the rightful APC and of cuz there are still processes and criteria to be fulfilled before it can be duly registered.

Dignitary:

[color=#006600]You are one of the reasons why Nigeria is Nigeria!!! U know the colour is white but you are calling it black!!! Well, I know many paid political jobbers have infiltrated nairaland!!!

Have u bothered to ask yourself why this 'new applicants' want no other name apart from the APC that has made tremendous publicity of its intention to use APC!!!

Well, I'm not at all saying they don't have a legal right to take the acronymn APC BUT the obvious truth is; it's a clear case of PDP PLAYING DIRTY POLITICS!!!

MY MSG TO APC:

1. This shows the goliath (PDP) is scared...pls don't take the feets off the pedal
.
2. If they refuse to register you as APC....don't bother, Choose any other name....Nigerians (d majority) are solidly behind u[/color]

big deal 007: [/quote]

big deal 007:

[quote author=big deal 007]

You just mentioned it that it is all about politics...politics involves tricks and taking advantage, meaning the smarter people get the prize. Now who's to be blamed if I capitalize on your mistake to get the prize? APC didnt go forward to register or even send a notice of registration to INEC, PDP saw the lacuna and took advantage .... That is politics for you even APC will do the same to PDP if they had such chance. Nobody is going to babysit you in politics, Politics is a very serious business and it is not science or mathematics 1+1 is not 2

take dat: Slow your roll! If the FACELESS APC had long submitted their application to INEC before the merger came to be, why didn't INEC as a neutral umpire immediately informed the coalition party when they came out with the communique of forming APC, that there is an existing application for the same acronym as picked by the merger? INEC cannot claim it wasn't notified by the respective parties in the coalition of their intention to go into a merger, so why wait for weeks before making it known to them? Since 7th of February, INEC just saw the need to call their attention to it on the 10th of March after all the publicity! What a Mockery of institutional incompetence!

Why are you contradicting yourself. You call INEC a neutral umpire and at the same time you want to inform the coalition of a request by another intending party . This is a game and the umpire only blows at the point of infringement and not anticipatoryly. Abi your late stooge said any thing is right in a game .

percipi1: It is a common law principle that the first in time prevails. I think INEC should go ahead and register the African People’s Congress if they met the conditions for registration. All Progressive Congress should adopt another name. By the way, I don’t like the acronym (APC). They should choose an ideological name like Labour party. E.g, Conservative, Tea, Green, Independent, Republican, Referendum etc

They want the name to sound like ACN and CPC. The Yorubas want to help return power to the North undermining the SE.