The All Progressives Congress (APC)
will hold its National Convention from
next month, the National Publicity
Secretary of the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN), Alhaji Lai Mohammed,
said yesterday. He told reporters in
Abuja that each of the three major
parties – AC N, Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) and the All
Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) – that
make up the APC would cease to exist
after the first APC National Convention
in April. The convention will ratify the
formation of the new party
Mohammed said the parties had ratified
the draft of the APC’s logo, manifesto
and constitution as proposed by its
INEC/legal compliance committees,
which were inaugurated a fortnight ago.
He said the logo, slogan and motto
were unanimously adopted after
Tuesday’s meeting of the larger
committee with the governors elected on
the platform of the parties in the merger.
He said there were no objections to the
logo, slogan and motto of the APC when
they were presented for adoption at the
meeting.
Said he: “Only the Merger Committee
has the final authority on any issue
about the proposed merger. All the
decisions the governors arrived at in
their meeting were presented to the
larger committee for approval and we all
deliberated on them and arrived at a
consensus on the grounds that there
must be give and take by all the political
parties. On Tuesday, there was no
dissent from any group after the meeting
of the governors with the Merger
Committee. The proposal of the
governors was endorsed by the
chairmen of each of the merger
committees of the political parties.
“This is a process, before you write to
INEC of your intentions to merge; you
must accompany the letter with the
name of your party, the logo, slogan,
manifesto and constitution of your party.
This is why it is important the sub
committees are set up because it is part
of the process of the merger.
“The first thing to do is for each of the
merging parties to write to INEC of its
intention to merge, after which the
parties will call a convention to secure
the mandate to merge. It is after that
mandate is given at the party’s
convention, to which INEC will send
observers that the process of winding up
will begin so as to join the merger.
“Then, those parties will have to
surrender their certificates of registration
and identity to INEC, which means the
ACN, CPC, ANPP and others will cease
to exist as registered political parties.”

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Double post

Finally shaping up, apga-pdp will continue to exist while apga-apga joins apc