Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) spokesman Lai Mohammed said in Abuja after a meeting of some leaders of the new party that following the row in APGA, its symbol will not be in the logo of the new party to avoid litigation.
According to him, the various factions in APGA have accepted the decision of APC and sought to be allowed to report to their party.
He said: “We appreciate the fact that APGA is today divided. It is factionalised. Therefore, it will not be proper for us to take any of the symbols of APGA as part of the logo of APC, which they actually accepted.
“Their only point is that we should allow them to report back to their party that in the new logo which will be unveiled, there is no symbol of APGA because once we use the symbol of APGA, a faction could take us to court.
“And that is why we are now differing the announcement of the logo until the time when they go back to explain. Certainly, they did not work out. They went to have their own meetings, their own consultations. “
He said members at the meeting arrived at what the logo would be , stressing, “but we are delaying the announcement because of what I have just told you.”
He also noted that the new party will inaugurate the various committees it has set up next week.
“We have taken a lot of very useful decisions, consultations still continue. Various committees have been set up to be inaugurated next week. And if there is any other development, we will let you know,” he said.
Speaking on the speculation that the All Nigerian People’s Party (ANPP) was not committed to the merger, Mohammed said the party’s Board of Trustees Chairman, Alli Modu Sherrif, attended the meeting.
He said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that is looking forward to the break up of APC, because of ego and status, will be disappointed because the constituent parties are committed to the cause of the merger.
He denied that some members of APC are already jostling for positions.
According to him, the issue of candidacy has not been tabled in all the consultations of the new party.
He noted that all the constituent parties must hold their respective conventions to seek their party’s consent for the merger.
“If the PDP is waiting for the issue of ambition or ego to divide the APC, I think they are mistaking. What I have seen in our deliberation today is the extent to which people are ready to make sacrifices, how people are ready to bend backward to ensure that this merger works.
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