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APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by fkaz(m): 8:28am On Feb 12, 2013
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
Senator Annie Okonkwo who represented the All Progressive Grand Alliane at last Wednesday’s conference where the new opposition party was revealed has pronounced APGA as dead.
Reacting to comments by some national executive members of APGA disassociating the party from the merger, Okonkwo said that they have the option to join the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or any other party of their choice as the decision to join the mega party had become a concluded one.
He cited as his proof the fact that Governor Okorocha who he described as a leader of the party had endorsed the involvement of the party with three other parties last Monday.
“When the governor of the party has come up to say openly that he is part of the merger, who has the party? Do you know that the truth of the matter is that a lot of PDP people are going to be involved here?
“It is a mega party being formed, it is a merger, don’t be surprised that you will see some ACN people trying to say thatthey don’t want to be involved and they want to join another party or the PDP. This is the way the leadership of the party moves.
‘’If some people are saying that they will join the PDP what willyou do? Will you go and force them? With this merger, all the parties involved have ceased to be. Is APGA bigger than ACN, or is it bigger than CPC or ANPP,” he rhetorically asked.
He said that the APC will give the country purposeful leadership where people will be proud to say that they are Nigerians.
Senator Okonkwo also said that it was certain that the PDP willgive President Goodluck Jonathan the ticket to contest the 2015 presidential election and that it is only in the APC that the people from the South East will realize their ambition of producing a president of Igbo extraction.
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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by EkoAtlantic1(f): 8:34am On Feb 12, 2013
Has it been existing in the first place?!


Confused people

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by takedat(m): 8:43am On Feb 12, 2013
grin Is APGA a political party or a member of the PDP conglomerate. The only governor that would have given a life to it has joined to merger. Adieu APGA, hold Okorie, Umeh, Massalla and Obi responsible for your demise!

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by 9icest: 9:14am On Feb 12, 2013
take dat: grin Is APGA a political party or a member of the PDP conglomerate.....

GBAM!!! Even Obi is willingly handling over to the PDP come the next election, and whoever emerges as the APGA candidate is just wasting his precious time.
The SE politics is still in its doldrums. Shame though.

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Wuse2(m): 9:15am On Feb 12, 2013
APGA confussed organisation
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Wuse2(m): 9:16am On Feb 12, 2013
How I wish Ojukwu was alive,he would have sparehead dis Merger.Bleep Gov. Obi

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Wuse2(m): 9:17am On Feb 12, 2013
Bleep Gov. Obi
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Wuse2(m): 9:18am On Feb 12, 2013
F**c'k
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Wuse2(m): 9:19am On Feb 12, 2013
F**c'k Gov Obi
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by seanet01: 9:20am On Feb 12, 2013
Wuse2: How I wish Ojukwu was alive,he would have sparehead dis Merger.Bleep Gov. Obi
Spearhead what?
Ojukwu is a Political zealot who covertly supports PDP while championing the cause of APGA
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Ganys: 9:24am On Feb 12, 2013
Better cool
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by GARRIx7(m): 9:24am On Feb 12, 2013
.... Little wonder they're only Good at whining and crying for others to concede the Presidency to them....

undecided

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by kaysy(m): 10:16am On Feb 12, 2013
why do u people like fighting online? can any1 tell me how much has been credited into ur account since u resumes this online fight, if u guys dnt have a job, u better get a life. the different between all of us is the language we speak - we'r all 1. just be rest asured that the more u condemn som1 else the more God condemns u. You are not better than the person/people u'r condeming

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by HAH: 10:27am On Feb 12, 2013
It is an open secret that APGA,LP,PPA,ANPP etc are all branches of the develish PDP created to divide and rule the people. The only real opposition parties are ACN and CPC .

To be frank am weary of this elements in APC because they can be moles, hope they won't be given any significant role.

Sai Buhari\Fashola

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Symphony007: 10:29am On Feb 12, 2013
With the current political trijectory in the country why don't the national assembly just declare was a two party system. So the political system will be linner, more effective and our ballot paper with be las long as someone's height among other things!!

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by dridowu: 10:31am On Feb 12, 2013
So Sad, R I P APGA, when is the burial ? I nid 8 yard of the aso ebi.
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Mukaz: 10:38am On Feb 12, 2013
Is better for apga to join APC and press for south east demand rather than been Jonathan foot soldier than cannot determine is own faith come 2015
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by kalunomics(m): 10:44am On Feb 12, 2013
seanet01: Spearhead what?
Ojukwu is a Political zealot who covertly supports PDP while championing the cause of APGA
tell me something! And were u his P.A. then? Mtcheeewww!!
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by HAH: 10:46am On Feb 12, 2013
Symphony007: With the current political trijectory in the country why don't the national assembly just declare was a two party system. So the political system will be linner, more effective and our ballot paper with be las long as someone's height among other things!!

Thank you, in addition we can try open ballot system, it has less cost and flaws,furthermore the best election in Nigerias history (1993) it was used
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by lacasa: 11:25am On Feb 12, 2013
Sai APC grin

Sai Buhari/Fashola grin

Sai Nijeriya grin

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Hamazz1: 11:51am On Feb 12, 2013
biafrans please don't spoil our nigerian alliance o.independence is soon coming to u dreamers.
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Afam4eva(m): 12:53pm On Feb 12, 2013
I also think APGA is dead as a party. People just use the party to get to a position but the party has no vision whatsoever. They've not grown for so many years and they seem not to care. Like someone said, APGA especially the Peter Obi's faction is just a subsidiary of the PDP. How can you call yourself an opposition if you keep dining with the ruling party.
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Nobody: 4:41pm On Feb 12, 2013
Mukaz: Is better for apga to join APC and press for south east demand rather than been Jonathan foot soldier than cannot determine is own faith come 2015
i disagree
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Eziachi: 5:23pm On Feb 12, 2013
HAH: It is an open secret that APGA,LP,PPA,ANPP etc are all branches of the develish PDP created to divide and rule the people. The only real opposition parties are ACN and CPC .

To be frank am weary of this elements in APC because they can be moles, hope they won't be given any significant role.

Sai Buhari\Fashola
You left out AD, which part are they? part of PDP or the opposition? And remind me the name of AD's presidential candidate in 2003?
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Gbawe: 5:51pm On Feb 12, 2013
Annie Okonkwo comment is more or less a prediction of where we are heading i.e a two main Party Nation as is the case with the UK, USA, et al.

Looking at issues without sentiments, the merger that created the APC also signify that we may be moving beyond the days when there will be 200 mushroom Political Parties everywhere with only 1 (the PDP) having the power, number and resources to monopolise power at the centre.

ACN, CPC and others who want to take on the PDP have now merged . Sooner or later, Pro-PDP factions of the APGA and Labour will have no choice but to coalesce into the PDP or face diminishing political returns. Even at State level, guber and legislative positions may bounce back and forth mainly between the APC and the PDP in future.

There are really no small Parties anymore. CPC has now gained overnight clout joining APC and ACN has become a monolith teaming up with others. the pro-PDP APGA and Labour Party will need this strength too. They will die if they don't move on because the political climate of Nigeria, with the birth of the APC, has changed for good. Within this new climate, the likes of APGA and Labour would have reached the pinnacle of their growth ability. They either join the PDP or APC or have their influential mover-and-shakers poached till they "die".

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by dayokanu(m): 7:55pm On Feb 12, 2013
Was APGA ever in existence?

Is it not just a subsidiary of PDP.
Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by PointB: 10:44am On Feb 13, 2013
APGA, and by extension other small/regional parties, can only die if they lose grassroot support. As long as they keep identifying and supporting the best candidate from the local population to represent them, they stand a survival chance.

The reality on ground now in any case is that APC is peopled mainly by one chance politicians, with no shred of common ideological footing, except of course the desire to grab hold of power at the centre to for the sake of sharing national cake. Once the sharing/allocation formular is not acceptable to some of them, expect them to gravitate to another party or form new one. We have seen this happen several times, in Africa.

That a man who intend to build a house has garnered enough bricks and mortar does not necessary means that the house has been build. It will therefore border seriously on precipice of naivity to raise so soon in a applause of dawn of new era of two party state, as nothing concrete is in place. APC as far as Nigerians are concerned are bunch of hyenas who have gathered to scavenge. Now the jury is out whether they would stick together in thick and thin. If I were a betting man, I'll bet one buck that these pack will collapse as soon as they realise that they cannot get what they desire from the new party.

In other words, the era of two party state is yet to come. It is too early in the day to write the obituary, let alone bury APGA.

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Re: APGA Is Dead – Sen Okonkwo by Melikam(m): 3:09pm On Feb 13, 2013
APGA,
R.I.P

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