The National Director of Publicity for All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ifanacho Oguejiofor, has said the party cannot drop its acronym which it has developed over the years to join in any alliance to form a political party. Oguejiofor disclosed this at the weekend while making clarification on the purported merger between APGA and aggrieved factions of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) to form Peoples Progressives Party (PPP). He said specifically that it is unimaginable for anyone to think that a well established and registered political party like APGA will dump its name to join an association that is unsure if the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will offer it any registration to become a party. While describing those behind the formation of PPP as political jobbers, who are out to swindle unsuspecting politicians, he said APGA does not want to respond to the issues as doing so will amount to glorifying the association. Oguejiofor further explained that the party has no record where the leader of the alleged APGA group that joined the PPP ever existed in the party leadership both at state and national level, adding that if former ordinary member of APGA decides to join another party, APGA cannot be said to have joined such association. While emphasising that based on a recent ruling by the Supreme Court on the leadership of the party, there is one united leadership of APGA under Ike Victor Oye, he also cautioned those trying to drag the party’s name into unwholesome association, saying the party will not take it any longer. “Our party is in total decorum, the leadership of the party has been working very hard to build the party structures into a stronger political force in Nigeria ahead of 2019 elections, and there is nothing like disenchantment whatsoever”, he said. Speaking on the Supreme Court judgement in which the party lost to PDP, the APGA National Director of Publicity said it was the card readers that made the party to lose the election to PDP rigging strategy, explaining that where the card readers failed, there were serious manipulations by the PDP agents. He also called on the INEC to put measures in place to ensure that the ad hoc staff hired by the commission are well trained to become objective, alleging that it is usually the ad hoc staff of the commission who compromise during elections by working for some political parties. Meanwhile, the party urged President Muhammadu Buhari to rise up to the economic challenges facing the country, saying that Nigerians are yearning to see the change which the party promised them during the polls. https://www.today.ng/politics/90253/apga-cant-drop-acronym-for-any-alliance