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Four major political parties announced their merger into one party — the All Progressives Congress (APC) — yesterday in Abuja.
The parties are Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).
The merger was announced by a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi.
Ikimi, Chairman of the ACN’s Merger Committee, read a one-page statement, stating the new party’s mission to restore hope to Nigeria .
The statement was signed by the chairmen of the merger committees of the four political parties.
The signatories are Ikimi (ACN), ex-Governor Ibrahim Shekarau (Chairman, Merger Committee, ANPP), Senator Annie Okonkwo (representative of APGA) and ex-Deputy Governor Garba Mohammed Gadi (Chairman, Merger Committee of CPC).
During the question and answer session, Ikimi said the merger would take effect immediately and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will be informed.
He said more parties might join the merger very soon.But while reacting to the unveiling of the new name, the Reacting to the merger, the National Chairman of the PDP, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, told reporters that his party was not worried by the development and that the merger of the opposition did not constitute any threat to the PDP.
Tukur said there was no polling unit in the country where his party was not represented, submitting that the “weak political parties” were coming together because they realized that individually, they did not have the strength to go into war with the PDP.
He described the ruling party as the Messi of Nigerian politics.
Tukur said, “It does not mean that we want to be a party without opposition, in fact opposition is a charge to action.
-Nation, Punch
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