Tinubu, Buhari In Dilemma Over APC Registration May Meet To Shop for Alternative Name

Tinubu, Buhari In Dilemma Over APC Registration
May Meet To Shop for Alternative Name

Leaders of two of the major opposition parties in the merger talks forming a ‘gang-up’ alliance against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN)and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)are in dilemma over its name and registration with the Independent Electoral Commission(INEC ­).Their adopted name - All Progressives Congress(APC) is the major headacheas INEC had declined to give the ‘green light’ on its possible registration.

Investigations gathered that the party leaders are desperately considering an alternative name following INEC's insistence that the APC won't get its nod for registration.

Investigations however indicated that the leaders
of the opposition in the APC would likely meet in
Abuja before this week end in the house of one of
its chieftain, Mr. Tom Ikimi who recently turned 69 to consider the options available to them. Sources close to the officials of the alliance talks indicate that ά section of its leadership is already considering three options in order to resolve the present impasse with the INEC.

The first according to our sources was a change of name which will involve addition of Nigeria to APC to make itAll Progressives Congress of Nigeria,though there is still the fears that another group may still beat them to the registration before the process is concluded as it was the case with the APC apart from that, adopting a new name which ά faction of the fusing parties believedmay be ά campaign tool against their future prospect as ά viable opposition party in the country. We gathered that the second option included the adoption of an
existing political party into which all the merging parties would fuse.