The All Progressives Congress on Tuesday dared the Independent National Electoral Commission, saying it would not change its name as suggested by the electoral umpire.

The yet-to-be registered party also said there was no iota of truth in the claim by INEC that a group with the same acronym had approached it for registration as a political party.

The Chief Press Secretary to the commission’s Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, was reported by a national daily (not The PUNCH) to have urged opposition parties in the APC to consider a new name and abbreviation to facilitate the registration of their group as a political party.

“We don’t encourage political parties with similar names, manifestoes, logos and acronyms and this is aimed at avoiding confusion between registered political parties with similar names and acronyms,” the newspaper quoted Idowu to have said.

But some leaders of the opposition political parties that merged to form the APC said INEC must be lying about its claim.

They said the APC , which came into being as a result of the merger of three opposition political parties, would not change its identity.

The leaders were asked to comment on the speculations that other leaders of the APC were already considering to change the name to ADC.

Speaking with one of our correspondents, the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the APC would not change its name.

He said, “No, we won’t change our name. We will stand by that name and that is what we want to be called at the commission.”...http://www.punchng.com/news/apc-dares-inec-says-we-wont-change-name/

If una no change now, PDP will change una name again.

Oya!!! War start.... APC vs PDP... Nigerians are the spectators and the international comunitee will be the umpire...who go win?...

This is not the type of game i'm expecting from pdp its just too ridiculous

No need to change it, we can have 2 APC's during the election. All the Tinubu/Buhari version need do is create a catchy party logo that'll leave their supporters in no doubt as to which is which. I'll recommend two crossed AK47's, some Arabic inscriptions and a very big bomb at the background. Problem solved. Sai Butinubu!