Tinubu, Buhari Move Talks To Ghana.

Written by Idowu Samuel.

THE leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and its counterpart in the opposition, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) are increasingly consolidating on their plans for merger ahead of the 2015 election, the two parties having found solace in the neighbouring Ghana, as a new meeting place.
An indication to this effect played out weekend when some members of ACN, led by Senator Bola Tinubu and the CPC chieftains led by General Muhammadu Buhari, stormed Ghana as a team, for the final rites of former Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills, on Friday.
Buhari had earlier joined Tinubu in his private residence in Lagos at the close of this week, to hold discussions with him, where as the two reportedly resolved to make the Ghana trip in company, while their respective aides and followers were equally in tow.
Three South-West governors accompanied Tinubu to Ghana, an indication that the two leaders would after the burial ceremonies take some hours off to advance on their talks on consolidating the merger plans before finally returning to Nigeria.
Some members of the two parties, according to findings, had before now, been meeting in Ghana to draw strategies on 2015 build-up amid reports that even late President Mills had been playing host to key Nigerian politicians from the opposition camp before his death.
The thawed relationship between Senator Tinubu and Mills had been fingered as the elixir for both ACN and CPC to consolidate on their merger plans since their leaders were said to have received encouragement from the deceased, who had laid the basis for building a modern Ghana.
There had been reports that both ACN and CPC had planned a joint convention earlier scheduled to hold this month, whereas the jamboree had to be shifted tentatively till November, August being a month of Ramadan.
The postponement of the joint conference was said to  be necessary to gain more time for further consultation on the merger plans by the two parties.
However, both Tinubu and Buhari, according to party members, have been keeping the details of their discussions and plans close to their chests.
The ACN and CPC were said to be treading cautiously on their merger plan as a means of avoiding the pitfalls of the past when initial plans between them to forge
a common front against the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) collapsed at the most crucial time.