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Threat to APC: PDP, ACN, CPC in war of words


On March 11, 2013 · In Headlines

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By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor
LAGOS — The parties in the fledgling All Progressive Congress, APC, were last night engaged in a war of words with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over alleged plans by the ruling party to sabotage their merger.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, were furious over what they claimed to be plans by the PDP to sponsor the registration of a new party to be known as the African Peoples Congress, APC.

The new political association with the same acronym with the mega opposition party, it was alleged, is being sponsored to deny the mega opposition party registration before the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.


The PDP in a reaction denied the claim, saying it would not be held liable for the negligence and incompetence of the merger parties it described as “our grossly inferior opponents.”

The plan by the opposition political parties to merge into APC ran into trouble on account of the proposal for the registration of another party to be known as the African Peoples Congress. The sponsors of the new party could not be identified last night.

Registration remains open —INEC

INEC officials contacted on the matter, yesterday, said registration remained open to either of the two parties which first met its conditions for registration.

Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, confirmed that the commission received a proposal for the registration of the African Peoples Congress, APC, last week but would not confirm the identity of the sponsors.

Asked of the implications, Idowu said the fate of the two proposals would depend on the provisions of the law.

He said: “What the law requires is that if a group applies and the law has already provided for things to be met, like a checklist, it is not a matter of INEC cherry picking or preferences. There is a checklist and once a group meets that checklist, any group that meets that checklist is registered with that name.”

Asked if two parties could bear the same acronym, Idowu said:
“That is what I said, I doubt it, I doubt it, but the point I am making is that it is an application and whoever meets the conditions first gets registered.”

ACN, CPC finger PDP

The ACN and the CPC were, however, not hesitant in identifying the PDP as sponsor of the new party which they claimed was being pushed as a deliberate effort to deny their mega party registration.

“If INEC refuses to register the All Progressives Congress, APC, when all the legal requirements have been met, the protest in Tahrir Square in Egypt will be a child’s play compared to what we will do at the Eagle Square,” the ACN’s national publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said in a statement, yesterday.

“We say this because we are aware that the PDP, which is mortally afraid of the rise and rise of the APC, is behind the phantom African Peoples Congress which has applied to INEC for registration, in an effort to instigate an acronym crisis and give INEC a reason, if it needs any, not to register the All Progressives Congress.

“But we will like to warn that if indeed INEC has not merged with the PDP, as one of our leaders, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has brilliantly said, then we do hope that the electoral body, which by the way is not unaware of the All Progressives Congress as the authentic APC, will not succumb to the evil machinations of the apprehensive PDP.

“It is a PDP plan in collusion with INEC but we will not take it lightly with them and all their plans will come to nothing. Indeed, we are very much aware of that and it won’t work, it will fail. We are just watching the INEC as an umpire to check them.

“We have already given indication and the whole world has heard us that we are APC and if they are trying to bring in another APC it won’t work.”

PDP denies allegations

But denying any involvement of the PDP in the alleged plans, the party’s national publicity secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, told Vanguard, yesterday: “The PDP is totally unaware of the status of the APC registration. We are unconcerned and completely unperturbed. In the words of our Board of Trustees’ chairman ‘we wish them well’.

“PDP cannot be held liable for any negligence and/or incompetence on the part of our grossly inferior opponents.”

The legacy parties in the APC announced their plans for merger on February 6, 2013 and forwarded a formal letter to INEC to that effect on March 6.

Mohammed was, however, insistent last night that INEC had a constructive knowledge of their proposal since last month when they made their intentions known.

Yerima’s arrest, move to clamp down on opposition

The ACN, meanwhile, has flayed Saturday’s arrest of Senator Ahmed Yerima, describing the action of the security agencies in Kaduna as a demonstration of the administration’s plans to clamp down on the opposition.

The party’s spokesman, Mohammed in a statement said the arrest of Senator Yerima for alleged incitement was indicative of the fact that the administration is jittery.

The party said Senator Yerima did not say anything extraordinary by threatening a protest, because protests are an integral part of liberal democracy and cannot be wished away or banned by anyone.

The party said it expects more arrests, investigations by anti-corruption agencies and other acts aimed at intimidating its leaders in the weeks and months ahead, but warned the Federal Government to make sure it had enough prison space to accommodate those it plans to arrest.

Mohammed said: “After all, it is generally believed that the recent redeployment of Police Commissioners in the states was done in readiness for the pre-2015 clampdown on the opposition.

“We know the arrest of Senator Yerima is just a tip of the iceberg, as the PDP-controlled Federal Government gets ready to bare its fangs. But we must warn that fascism can never prevail over liberal democracy.’’

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/threat-to-apc-pdp-acn-cpc-in-war-of-words/

Misleading title. Nigerian press are deceptive.

If
El-Rufai and other crop of ministers were so "good" as he claimed, why
is the country still backward?

For 8yrs even the most basic thing as
Electricity they could not provide, Corruption was high, Electoral malpractices common.
For 8yrs, even the Benin - Ore road they could not complete it.

Yorubas
still dominate the Fed Civil Service, Banking & Oil industries. I
agree they are not dominating the Federal political space now but Tinubu
and ACN caused it.

Tinubu wanted to remain the Alpha and Omega of Yoruba politics and hence manipulate ACN and the Press to frustrate every move of Fed govt to raise any Yoruba son/daughter that competes with him.

So, Tinubu's own economics is a Chop Chop Economics (CCE).
Chop all the money like say there is no tomorrow. Worst still, to imagine
that these are the kind of people behind the new party is quite unfortunate.

These same peeps manipulated the governors to presurised th Y'Adua/Jonathan
administration to share our reserve with states and local governments but
were the first to take side with Oby Ezekwesili to pick on Fed when she
complained of a depleting reserve.

oddy4real: I am expecting Gbawe, DemDem the Retardeen, Eko-Ile , Nacosa, 'Airhead'(Egghead) on this thread o. But alas they won't show up. They only show up when the thread offers them the avenue to yab GEJ. Awon eranko lasan lasan

Forget it, you will never see them here . . . lol

taharqa: Assert only what you are sure of, esp in public; dats what wise people do... The $200m Loan facility promisd by GEJ in 2011 and domiciled in d BOI, took sm time b4 taking off, but has since taking off. Business persons from d Entertainment Industry are already drawing from d Facility. The so-calld 'first' Nollywood film that was distributd recently on American Cinamas was supportd by dis Entertainment Fund, sometin that Mr Abu (the Producer) stated expressly. That thread was on d frontpage a little more than a week ago.... That Entertainment Fund is working; dis Nollywood Grant Fund will work. Why? Cos GEJ keeps his promise (YOUWin, SURE-P, et al )

Don't mind those illiterate ACN errand boys.
Very quick to jump on threads to display their ignorance

That Chimpanzee voice.
He shouldn't go there to disgrace Naija oh

African Queen

gregg2: 13 people lost their lives in three separate
bomb attacks as a result of that political jamboree.

The visit was mere political so that ACN can come to say what they have just said now.
But which is better?
1) Losing 13 lives to bomb attacks as a result of the meeting and
2) Saving those lives by holding the meeting elsewhere

ACN are wicked souls playing politics with everything.
Will Lai Muhammed be saying the same thing if one of those killed as a
result of that meeting was his child or wife?

Actually, I thought ACN will cover their faces in shame.

Adeboye is a true man of God. His propheses come to pass unlike the other prophet of doom Bakare.

Weldone GEJ for intervening.

For four yrs now Fashola and ACN propaganda machinery has been deceiving
us about the 2 and a half hour Lagos - Badagry expressway and have only
succeeded in doing a 3min Orile - Mile 2 part with two mighty toll gates already. Scammers!!

Okija_juju:

Buaahahahahahahaha . . . cracking ma ribs here with the Fashola comment.
Oga Okija, abeg leave our fashola alone - that is the man that brought street lights to Nigeria

Rochas is a biiigggggggg disgrace
to the entire South East.

The harlot governor is purely on his own.
He cannot decieve anybody.

Shame on all you Hypocrites governors

Bunch of thieves (except Oshiomole).
How did they raise that amount of money?
under which subhead?

It is obvious Oshiomole is merely forced by party politics to mingle with
this unholy alliance. He doesn't belong there. You can see he is not
even excited about it one bit.

Fashola likes playing to the gallery all the time.
This is not a quality of a good leader.

GEJ is working, meanwhile the Amoured Personnel carrier (APC)
are gathering in Maiduguri to symparthise with their Boko haram siblings.

Buhari must have influenced that choice of Maiduguri as a show of solidarity
to his Boko boys.

Demdem: The more reason why Fashola should lead or be among those to lead this nation. Kudos to him. Even much more wealthier states arent

Which much more wealthy states were not given?
Keep blabbing your mouth on what you don't know.

Even . . . ehhh Kaduna, a Boko Haram and bomb infested state
is also rated positive so what is the big deal?
Lagos economy is not operating in isolation with the entire Nigerian economy.
As somebody said earlier, the managers of the Nigerian economy - GEJ,
Okonjo-Iweala, Sanusi, Aganga including Fashola are doing a great job.

. . . and CPC/APC fear GEJ more than they fear death.

Nuzo':
This duo will make a near perfect march to lead Nigeria.

I think so too.
Very unfair that some elements in the north attempted to drag such a stainless woman
into the politics of ethnicity just because she insisted on merit in the appointment of FIRS boss.

Gbongbonosi: Hmmm she didn't deserve this praise she has spending a good 8years without any successfully ribadu you are disappointed me

Bros, na waooo . . . what is your highest educational qualification?

Nuhu is spot on.

If we can move past gender discrimination, then Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should
be the next President of this country not old out-of-fashion Buhari nor
corruption personified Tinubu nor the political harlot Rochas.

Meanwhile, we still require your services Nuhu.

Prof Corruption: Eko o ni baje!

Ok ohhh . . . atleast he has given us street lights on Ikorodu road.

The same Fashola was in Abuja crying to everybody how
Finance Ministry has denied him $600m loan.

The credit for this rating should go to Okonjo Iweala
for prudent management of the country's loan portfolio.

Liar Mohm'd is running out of lies.
We are gradually realising the lies they are feeding gullible Nigerians with

500m naira of free cash from
Fashola

I think so. That road is really sweet. I drove past there and was like gawd . . .

ACN
has a lying spokeperson. Inflation rate has dropped to a single digit
9%. US, UK, EU and foreign agencies view Nigeria together with Brazil
and India as next economic powerhouse.

That
uncle Dele of Vanguard newspaper (the writer of this article) is a big
disgrace to journalism. I used to read his articles but I must say I'm deeply dissappoimted in him.

We have a long way to go in this country.