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Mr. Garri.:
As long as Uduaghan and his likes aren't among them I think its ok...

berem: They are innocent until proven guilty.

eGuerrilla: Comrade PointB, the simple truth is that APC-APC has a much steeper hill to climb before it can meet the criteria for registration, but then you already know this.

Now, since there appears to be no room for scruples in the high-wire game of politics currently playing out within the NL commentariat, I fully understand what informs your feigned indignation


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berem: What an expensive joke! If it dare happens, then i withdraw my support for APC.

pazienza: Ok, i get your point. But lets be real,incase of disintegration of nigeria,ijaw as a country cannot stand against a greater yoruba country in a land dispute, considering that they are likely to be equally engaged in land dispute with bini people and possibly igbos( as in regard to bonny and opobo. *cool*). They simply don't have the population and unity to fight at all those fronts at the same time,especially against much stronger and populous adversaries.

It seems nigeria's disintegration will test ijaw tenacity and unity to it's limit. It would be interesting to see how they will handle it.

Afam4eva: [size=14pt]I think this is an opportunity for these corrupt PDP governors to become progressives.[/size]

APC woos aggrieved PDP governors
March 10, 2013 by ALLWELL OKPI 100 Comments
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The All Progressives Congress has expressed its preparedness to receive the Peoples Democratic Party governors sympathetic to the embattled Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, into its fold following the governors’ threats to leave the PDP.

The spokesmen for three of the four parties in the merger, who spoke to SUNDAY PUNCH, were optimistic that the governors and other PDP members would defect to APC as the crisis in the ruling party deepens.

The National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Lai Mohammed, said it was only natural for politicians leaving the PDP to join the APC.

He, however, clarified that the merger neither initiated nor fuelled the crisis in the ruling party.

He said, “The four parties that formed APC–ACN, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party, and All Progressives Grand Alliance – are not the architect of PDP’s problems. In fact, the crisis PDP is facing today predates the coming together of these four parties. But we will be the greatest beneficiaries of the disintegration of PDP.

“On our own, we have not set out to destabilise the PDP, what is happening now was bound to happen and our merger coming at this time is providing an alternative for disgruntled governors, who are unhappy with the way they have been treated in PDP.”

Mohammed said though none of the governors had officially begun discussion with APC, they would be welcomed if they wanted to join the merger.

“To the best of my knowledge, I’m not aware of any of them officially discussing with APC, but what I know is that some of them have openly declared that the coming of our merger is timely, because their scattered umbrella can no longer hold them. So, we have become the alternative for these governors,” he said.

Also, the National Publicity Secretary, of the CPC, Rotimi Fashakin, said the doors of APC were open to aggrieved PDP members.

He said, “Not just the governors, all those who have suffered oppression and the travesty of justice that is common in the PDP are welcome to join APC. It’s a political party, if they show interest, they will be welcomed.”

Similarly, the National Publicity Secretary of the ANPP, Emma Eneukwu, said the APC would woo the PDP governors, in order to swell its ranks.

“Politics is all about people and getting a state governor over is not a small thing. Even though I’m not aware of any ongoing discussions with the governors, I believe there could be some underground moves, but not to my knowledge yet. It is possible,” he said.

Last week, SUNDAY PUNCH reported that the PDP governors sympathetic to Amaechi were threatening to leave the PDP.

The governors reportedly resent the strong-arm tactics employed by President Goodluck and his men in their bid to take over the party machinery.

Defending the formation of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the Political Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, had said the forum under the leadership of Amaechi was being run like a trade union.

The Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio, had vowed that “Judases” in the party would be probed.

OAM4J: You have been unbanned and your post is now visible. Sorry about it.

thelastPope: Bigots and their Defenders Congress - BDC

Jagaban Family Congress - JFC

[size=18pt]Dogs and Baboons Congress - DBC[/size]

Propaganda Peoples Congress - PPC

Overtthrow PDP by Fire by Force Congress - OPFFC

Musiwa Sattelite and Meteorite Interstella Galactical Congress - MSMIGC

Speaking to Vanguard in Warri, HRM Ayemi-Botu, said: “No sane Nigerian should be challenging Jonathan to fish them out, except those people are their accomplices and working in tandem with Boko Haram to create unrest and tension in the land.

pazienza: itsekiri doesn't have have direct boundary with SW to be part of a new yoruba country,the case of alaska and the rest of USA comes to mind.

P[b]DP mocks APC, says it can’t register party, yet wants to rule Nigeria[/b]
Sani Tukur
Published: March 12,2013

PDP says APC has leaders that are arrogant, thoughtless and visionless.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in a ridiculing tone, Tuesday, said the newly formed All Progressives Congress, APC, is an illusion and its leaders ‘politically naïve’.

The ruling party lambasted the APC leaders saying they left out something as basic as registering their name and that their APC will not exist, as the acronym has already been taken.

The ruling party described the APC’s publicity as “the hallmark of political naivety, painlessness and a foreboding that the Party will drive Nigeria to socio-political and economic brink should it be entrusted with power”.

The party also chastised the leadership of the new party for failing to “dully reserve or register the proposed name of their party before embarking on bleeping jamboree and propaganda”.

The statement

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, the party said the reality on the ground has shown that the leaders of the APC have been grandstanding while “the first chapter of their history was yet to be successfully written”.

“Nigerians are here confronted with an irony! It is an irony of a political party who without adequate planning, without a solid working rhythm, yet wishes to be entrusted to its effete, shaky shoulders, the fate of over One Hundred and Sixty Million Nigerians,” Mr. Metuh said in the statement.

“How can a group who could not conclude the basic as in due registration of its name be able to manage the affairs of Nigeria at this moment of critical challenge.”

The PDP said the parties that formed the APC have displayed their penchant for arrogance and deceit.

It accused members of the new party of lying when it claimed that some PDP governors and National Assembly members were planning to join them.

“How can a politician worth his onions leave a known, formidable and nationwide political party for a disparate and unregistered amalgam?” the party asked. “This false claim is also a window into the minds of the leaders of the coalition. The summary is that they are waiting for decampees from the PDP to build their party, perhaps, register it for them. What an illusion! What a self delusion!”

INEC’s stance

Kayode Idowu, the spokesperson of Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, issued a statement last week stating that a party called the African Peoples Congress, which shares an acronym with the newly formed All Progressives Congress, has applied to INEC for registration; thereby foreclosing the possibility of registering the All Progressives congress.

This greatly angered the opposition with the individual parties that make up the All Progressives Congress threatening brimstone. The party was formed by the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP; the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC; and a faction of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA. Already, the new party has 11 state governors, second only to the PDP.

A stalwart of the CPC and former minister of the Abuja, Nasir El-Rufai said “Any attempt not to register the APC will attract the anger of the Nigerian people. APC has become a mass movement of people who are fed up with bad governance”.

INEC’s claim, false

Also, the spokesperson of the ACN, Lai Mohammed, Tuesday, issued a statement describing the position of Mr. Idowu as a lie.

Mr. Mohammed said the claim by the electoral body as postulated by Mr. Idowu is not supported by INEC’s laws, as articulated by the relevant sections of the Electoral Act regulating the registration of a political party.

It said the truth of the matter is that no party today with the acronym APC has applied to INEC to be registered, adding that even the phantom African Peoples Congress, APC, which is being sponsored by the PDP to lay claim to the acronym – has only written a letter of intent, which has not even been discussed by INEC, not to talk of the commission taking any decision on it.

“The statement credited to Mr. Idowu is therefore reckless and provocative and clearly betrays INEC as truly having merged with the PDP to frustrate the merger of the progressives under the banner of the All Progressives’ Congress (APC). One wonders who the spokesman is speaking for and what interest he represents. He should therefore be called to order before he sets the country ablaze,” the ACN said.

pazienza: SW does not lack oil, ondo has got some oil,and i am sure that with better searching techniques,they will find more oil off lagos coast line. I also reckon that itsekiri will be with SW,itsekiri has got enough oil to help their yoruba SW kin and kith

SW doesn't actually need SE or SS,which is why i am always suprised to see them defending the unity of nigeria,when igbos talk of igbo republic.

Ijeoma Obasi: making Nigerians to believe assumptions that they are behind it.judgement day is near.

Slizbeat: Oga PointB, I sent u a PM bt u weren't connected, I jst want to inquire abt ur signature, did Sir ahmadu Bello really say this?

gunuvi: Why announce again to the public without first going to INEC for their registration.
Walahi, I will go to the INEC office today with my people and we will go and start the registration process for African Democrats Congress ADC before they get there.
It is now I know those peeps in APC are bunch of noisemakers. Politics is all about strategy and they ought to have learnt from their first experience and start their registration process first before coming out to announce to the public.
Na season film, e nile duro wotan!

ndu_chucks: This reminds me of my days as a student in the USA when we used to register domain names for a few dollars and sell them for thousands of dollars. Oyinbo spoil market by introducing dot net, dot co e.t.c

This group don hit jackpot, maga must pay.


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