HAH: Why are this type of people always from same region in Nigeria, integrity means nothing to them.

Remember ABN-Arthur Nzeribe
Remember YEAA -Daniel kanu

Why must you always be used. SMH

htajz: though am a PDP member, am already in love with this party , dont mind supporting them sef they are the true opposition to my party at least we will be sure if we loose one day we will be loosing to fresh stock of nigerians and not wasted politicians, coup plotters, religious extremist, political prostitutes and ethnic warlords.

baby_123: The fraudulent party. Fake address, fake lawyer, fake number used at registration. Thereby this fake party is instantly null and void. Falsified information on a government document is a crime. And this address is very juvenile, these people are not educated enough to guard a pit latrine. yawns#

baby_123: The fraudulent party. Fake address, fake lawyer, fake number used at registration. Thereby this fake party is instantly null and void. Falsified information on a government document is a crime. And this address is very juvenile, these people are not educated enough to guard a pit latrine. yawns#

Peterwins: This is a TKO against All progressive congress. I hope they have learn't their lesson. It is obvious there are some moles in their party leadership already. This could also be GEJ plan B against the PDP just in case he doesn't get the PDP ticket in 2015. Politics!!!! ever so intriguing.

thelastPope: One thing is clear in the above. It was not an overnight or hurried job. This is a well thought out plan and presentation. The name coincidence is funny though but you have to give it to these guys. They have a beautiful piece up there and seem to know what they are doing.

My conspiracy mind says, they probably were planning and working on this with another name but as soon as they saw the former/fake APC guys making so much noise, they took advantage and changed their name. If I am right, that will be one of the smartest political move in Nigeria's history

Maxymilliano: Summary of some APC points of action:

There is no country in the world that has made the transition from a poor and underdeveloped country to a rich developed country without industrialization. The new era that we must enter now has to embrace industrialization across the key sectors of our economy.

Through industrialization we can significantly transform our agriculture, information and communication technology and knowledge-based industries

No country in the world has become food secure by using traditional hoes, cutlasses and depending solely on rain-fed agriculture. We must make the shift to mechanized agriculture and irrigation watered agriculture for all-year farming.

We must also make an urgent departure from subsistent agriculture to large scale commercial agriculture with aview to attaining self-sufficiency in food production; agro-industrialization; infrastructural development for storage, processing and marketing agro-produce.

For these, a National Irrigation Schemes shall be provided; small-scale dams rather than large dams shall be constructed to avoid displacing small-scale farmers.

Communities shall be aided by Government matching grants to construct dams to provide irrigated water for all-year-round agriculture. In supplementing our protein needs, Aqua-culture shall form the cornerstone of protein improvement programme.

Actually, the APC has a comprehensive and to a large extent, radical interventionplans for the extractive industry, transportation and communication with emphasis on the overhauling of the air transport system, re-establishing the national carrier to be private sector-operated, incorporating global best safety practises.

The Party will invest in the rail component of the urban Mass Transit System ; and will not only continue with the process of revamping the railways but would also make funds available for purchasing of new rolling stocks and refurbishing of existing ones. Major agricultural and industrial parts of the country hitherto not reached by rail lines shall be effectively linked for ease of access and transportation of persons, goods and services.

Distinguished Ladies and gentlemen, may I crave your indulgence to put in perspective a few issues of misrepresentation being bandied around by the merger group, apparently occasioned by some form of inexplicable ignorance.

With desperation that blinds objectivity, the Coalition of three political parties has flung at us as many allegations and fraudulent assertions as they could lay their hands on, even on matters as straight forward as basic constitutional requirement for registration of political parties.

1. They said we did not apply to INEC for registration:

First and foremost, we applied to INEC through a lawyer, whose services we retained and our letter was duly submitted to INEC. Subsequent to that, we got a reply from INEC stipulating requirements and preconditions for registration (Display letter).

2. They said we have not paid a kobo of the processing fee to INEC, the precondition for processing an application:

Contrary to the hallucinations of the Merger group, within the period we paid the N1million administrative and processing fee stipulated by the Commission. (Display receipts).

3. They said we are faceless:

Actually, we would have engaged them long ago, but we had work to do! And since they found it more rewarding idling away on the pages of newspaper, we let them enjoy their sports while we pursued an aspiration we had held so dear and close for the greater part of two years now.

Today we have submitted the long list of requirements as prescribed by INEC and have completed the constitutional demand on us for registration as a political party.

Accordingly, INEC has duly acknowledged our submission and this is the INEC endorsed letter to that effect (Display).

So ladies and gentlemen, we can now get down to specifics:

Has the Merger group submitted any application or registration material to INEC?

The answer is NO!

Does the noisy grandstanding and in the words of Lai Mohammed, ‘constructive knowledge’ or public knowledge of the Merger group translate to application or advancing registration materials to INEC?

The answer is NO!

Can a party which has shown a total lack of capacity in taking care of the least basic responsibility in the process; for a political association that seeks registration be taken serious beyond their worth in the news stands?

And the answer is NO!

If the Merger Group was sincere in the quest for an alternative platform for Nigerians, they should have settled down to build it. But of course, they cannot because they are used to BUYING IT! Now their frustration has found the usual outlet in name-calling and wolf-calls; all of which amounts to unproductive brinkmanship that does not and can never translate to registration of a political party.

We wish to remind you that when the Merger group claimed and announced our Acronym ‘APC’ for their party, we were compelled to react but an emergency meeting of the party was all that it took to come to terms with reality. And we reasoned: The Merger group has all the funds and connections to fast track their registration at our detriment, and with their unlimited media space, justify such action no matter how loud we protested.

We had no legal claim to the acronym.

And that is the message we have for all those that feel threatened by our emergence: No one has any legal claim to an acronym without fulfilling the stipulated constitutional procedures and requirements!

As a party we want the APC to be our bridge to the future, shedding our infatuation with the past

TODAY, WE CALLED YOU ALL HERE TO INFORM YOU OF OUR COMPLETION OF THE REQUIRED CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PROCESS FOR REGISTRATION OF A POLITICAL PARTY. AS YOU ARE ALREADY AWARE WE HAVE OFFICIALLY OPENED OUR NATIONAL HQRS FROM WHERE,WE ARE ADDRESSING YOU TODAY. WE HAVE OFFICIALLY FILLED OUR APPLICATION AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 78 OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IN THE FORM OF FORM PA.1 (SHOW COPY).

WE HAVE EQUALLY PAID ALL THE PROCESING FEES FOR REGISTRATION, PROVIDED OUR NATIONAL OFFICE AND OFFICERS, PRODUCED OUR MANIFESTO, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR LOGO, FLAG, EMBLEM. ETC, COPIES OF WHICH WE HAVE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS.

NOW THE FACTS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. WE ARE WAITING TO BE ISSUED OUR CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION IN THE COMING DAYS BY INEC IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ELECTORAL ACT.

We have a firm resolve to fast-track the reform of the education sector. There is no precedent in history, where a country has made the transition to a rich and modern society without a critical mass of the population becoming qualitatively literate and numerate. The Far East countries that are now the models we want to emulate in our Vision 20:2020 have made sure that transition to high school is over 95% in the last 45 years or so. We can make it happen with relevant and qualitative intervention in our education sector and providing wider latitude for technical education.

Even more, we shall accelerate the resolution of problems and challenges in our education sector, including providing opportunities to young people out of school to access the necessary training and retraining opportunities for a new industrial economy.

This is so because the APC views education as a cardinal social objective that must be pursued vigorously by the state. It is an important social instrument for national enlightenment and unity amongst the diverse peoples of Nigeria.

In conformity with the provisions of the Constitution the APC shall pursue a foreign policy of mutual co-existence through bilateral and multilateral agreements. APC government shall observe international conventions and obligations of regional and international organizations of which Nigeria is signatory to.

While focusing on Africa and the third World as the center piece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, the APC government would resist imperial re-colonialism, discrimination and all forms of undue external interference.

We shall deploy the politics and economic instrument of diplomacy as our standard foreign policy strategy.

We shall vigorously pursue our brand of Citizenship Diplomacy that is centred solely on protecting the interest of Nigerian citizens wherever they may be around the world.

Suffice it to say that an APC-led federal government would not sit to negotiate bilateral relations with any nation where as much as one Nigerian citizen is abused or unjustly deprived, until such anomaly is redressed.

Details of our policy plan are contained in our manifesto, however, be assured that we are clear about the points of action and areas of action we seek to pursue. And indeed, we will take action – not just talk.

And like Margaret Mead most succinctly put it, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

So fellow Nigerians, and especially young Nigerians, this is the time to take charge of our destiny. We bring you the people’s alternative, the future of Nigeria and the future of Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you… your party… the APC, AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONGRESS.

Thank you all and God bless!

CHIEF (HON) ONYINYE. M IKEAGWUONU (JP)

PROTEM NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF APC (AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONGRESS)


http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/03/14/full-text-of-speech-by-apc-national-chairman-as-party-is-registered-by-inec/

addey:

You get time to type all this nonsense I think you deserve a GCFR ( Grand comedian of the Federal Republic )

addey:

You get time to type all this nonsense I think you deserve a GCFR ( Grand comedian of the Federal Republic )

addey:

You get time to type all this nonsense I think you deserve a GCFR ( Grand comedian of the Federal Republic )

baby_123:

ROFLMAO. See desperation from these lunatics. I think they are scared of the opposition. It is such a joke, it tells the maximum level of IQ we are dealing with in government. No wonder they said the IQ of Nigeria is <60. If you have this many dumbos relating with people outside of the country, then it is obvious what the foreigners that compile those stats will think of the Nigerian IQ. This is dumb and juvenile at best.

Ejiné:

You were too dull to see it was a news article he posted.

I think you deserve GRIN (Goddamned Resident Idiiot of Nairaland)

baby_123:

ROFLMAO. See desperation from these lunatics. I think they are scared of the opposition. It is such a joke, it tells the maximum level of IQ we are dealing with in government. No wonder they said the IQ of Nigeria is <60. If you have this many dumbos relating with people outside of the country, then it is obvious what the foreigners that compile those stats will think of the Nigerian IQ. This is dumb and juvenile at best.

Maxymilliano: Summary of some APC points of action:

There is no country in the world that has made the transition from a poor and underdeveloped country to a rich developed country without industrialization. The new era that we must enter now has to embrace industrialization across the key sectors of our economy.

Through industrialization we can significantly transform our agriculture, information and communication technology and knowledge-based industries

No country in the world has become food secure by using traditional hoes, cutlasses and depending solely on rain-fed agriculture. We must make the shift to mechanized agriculture and irrigation watered agriculture for all-year farming.

We must also make an urgent departure from subsistent agriculture to large scale commercial agriculture with aview to attaining self-sufficiency in food production; agro-industrialization; infrastructural development for storage, processing and marketing agro-produce.

For these, a National Irrigation Schemes shall be provided; small-scale dams rather than large dams shall be constructed to avoid displacing small-scale farmers.

Communities shall be aided by Government matching grants to construct dams to provide irrigated water for all-year-round agriculture. In supplementing our protein needs, Aqua-culture shall form the cornerstone of protein improvement programme.

Actually, the APC has a comprehensive and to a large extent, radical interventionplans for the extractive industry, transportation and communication with emphasis on the overhauling of the air transport system, re-establishing the national carrier to be private sector-operated, incorporating global best safety practises.

The Party will invest in the rail component of the urban Mass Transit System ; and will not only continue with the process of revamping the railways but would also make funds available for purchasing of new rolling stocks and refurbishing of existing ones. Major agricultural and industrial parts of the country hitherto not reached by rail lines shall be effectively linked for ease of access and transportation of persons, goods and services.

Distinguished Ladies and gentlemen, may I crave your indulgence to put in perspective a few issues of misrepresentation being bandied around by the merger group, apparently occasioned by some form of inexplicable ignorance.

With desperation that blinds objectivity, the Coalition of three political parties has flung at us as many allegations and fraudulent assertions as they could lay their hands on, even on matters as straight forward as basic constitutional requirement for registration of political parties.

1. They said we did not apply to INEC for registration:

First and foremost, we applied to INEC through a lawyer, whose services we retained and our letter was duly submitted to INEC. Subsequent to that, we got a reply from INEC stipulating requirements and preconditions for registration (Display letter).

2. They said we have not paid a kobo of the processing fee to INEC, the precondition for processing an application:

Contrary to the hallucinations of the Merger group, within the period we paid the N1million administrative and processing fee stipulated by the Commission. (Display receipts).

3. They said we are faceless:

Actually, we would have engaged them long ago, but we had work to do! And since they found it more rewarding idling away on the pages of newspaper, we let them enjoy their sports while we pursued an aspiration we had held so dear and close for the greater part of two years now.

Today we have submitted the long list of requirements as prescribed by INEC and have completed the constitutional demand on us for registration as a political party.

Accordingly, INEC has duly acknowledged our submission and this is the INEC endorsed letter to that effect (Display).

So ladies and gentlemen, we can now get down to specifics:

Has the Merger group submitted any application or registration material to INEC?

The answer is NO!

Does the noisy grandstanding and in the words of Lai Mohammed, ‘constructive knowledge’ or public knowledge of the Merger group translate to application or advancing registration materials to INEC?

The answer is NO!

Can a party which has shown a total lack of capacity in taking care of the least basic responsibility in the process; for a political association that seeks registration be taken serious beyond their worth in the news stands?

And the answer is NO!

If the Merger Group was sincere in the quest for an alternative platform for Nigerians, they should have settled down to build it. But of course, they cannot because they are used to BUYING IT! Now their frustration has found the usual outlet in name-calling and wolf-calls; all of which amounts to unproductive brinkmanship that does not and can never translate to registration of a political party.

We wish to remind you that when the Merger group claimed and announced our Acronym ‘APC’ for their party, we were compelled to react but an emergency meeting of the party was all that it took to come to terms with reality. And we reasoned: The Merger group has all the funds and connections to fast track their registration at our detriment, and with their unlimited media space, justify such action no matter how loud we protested.

We had no legal claim to the acronym.

And that is the message we have for all those that feel threatened by our emergence: No one has any legal claim to an acronym without fulfilling the stipulated constitutional procedures and requirements!

As a party we want the APC to be our bridge to the future, shedding our infatuation with the past

TODAY, WE CALLED YOU ALL HERE TO INFORM YOU OF OUR COMPLETION OF THE REQUIRED CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL PROCESS FOR REGISTRATION OF A POLITICAL PARTY. AS YOU ARE ALREADY AWARE WE HAVE OFFICIALLY OPENED OUR NATIONAL HQRS FROM WHERE,WE ARE ADDRESSING YOU TODAY. WE HAVE OFFICIALLY FILLED OUR APPLICATION AS REQUIRED BY SECTION 78 OF THE ELECTORAL ACT IN THE FORM OF FORM PA.1 (SHOW COPY).

WE HAVE EQUALLY PAID ALL THE PROCESING FEES FOR REGISTRATION, PROVIDED OUR NATIONAL OFFICE AND OFFICERS, PRODUCED OUR MANIFESTO, OUR CONSTITUTION, OUR LOGO, FLAG, EMBLEM. ETC, COPIES OF WHICH WE HAVE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS.

NOW THE FACTS SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. WE ARE WAITING TO BE ISSUED OUR CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION IN THE COMING DAYS BY INEC IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE ELECTORAL ACT.

We have a firm resolve to fast-track the reform of the education sector. There is no precedent in history, where a country has made the transition to a rich and modern society without a critical mass of the population becoming qualitatively literate and numerate. The Far East countries that are now the models we want to emulate in our Vision 20:2020 have made sure that transition to high school is over 95% in the last 45 years or so. We can make it happen with relevant and qualitative intervention in our education sector and providing wider latitude for technical education.

Even more, we shall accelerate the resolution of problems and challenges in our education sector, including providing opportunities to young people out of school to access the necessary training and retraining opportunities for a new industrial economy.

This is so because the APC views education as a cardinal social objective that must be pursued vigorously by the state. It is an important social instrument for national enlightenment and unity amongst the diverse peoples of Nigeria.

In conformity with the provisions of the Constitution the APC shall pursue a foreign policy of mutual co-existence through bilateral and multilateral agreements. APC government shall observe international conventions and obligations of regional and international organizations of which Nigeria is signatory to.

While focusing on Africa and the third World as the center piece of Nigeria’s foreign policy, the APC government would resist imperial re-colonialism, discrimination and all forms of undue external interference.

We shall deploy the politics and economic instrument of diplomacy as our standard foreign policy strategy.

We shall vigorously pursue our brand of Citizenship Diplomacy that is centred solely on protecting the interest of Nigerian citizens wherever they may be around the world.

Suffice it to say that an APC-led federal government would not sit to negotiate bilateral relations with any nation where as much as one Nigerian citizen is abused or unjustly deprived, until such anomaly is redressed.

Details of our policy plan are contained in our manifesto, however, be assured that we are clear about the points of action and areas of action we seek to pursue. And indeed, we will take action – not just talk.

And like Margaret Mead most succinctly put it, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”

So fellow Nigerians, and especially young Nigerians, this is the time to take charge of our destiny. We bring you the people’s alternative, the future of Nigeria and the future of Africa. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you… your party… the APC, AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONGRESS.

Thank you all and God bless!

CHIEF (HON) ONYINYE. M IKEAGWUONU (JP)

PROTEM NATIONAL CHAIRMAN OF APC (AFRICAN PEOPLE’S CONGRESS)


http://dailypost.com.ng/2013/03/14/full-text-of-speech-by-apc-national-chairman-as-party-is-registered-by-inec/

CFCfan: Now, this is getting interesting! The African Peoples Congress chairman has delivered a well-crafted plan of action. This party could be the real change that Nigeria needs from the 'old breed' of politicians that populate the PDP, ACN, APGA and ANPP.