All Progressives Congress, APC will
hold its National Convention in the coming weeks. This is as disclosed
by the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria,
ACN, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.
Mohammed told DailyPost in Abuja on Thursday that each of the three major parties – ACN, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP would cease to exist after the first APC National Convention in April.
The convention is expected to ratify the formation of the new party.
According to Mohammed, the parties had ratified the draft of the APC’s logo, manifesto and constitution as proposed by its NEC/legal compliance committees, which were inaugurated a fortnight ago.
He said, the logo, slogan and motto were unanimously adopted after Tuesday’s meeting of the larger committee with the governors elected on the platform of the parties.
He said there were no objections to the logo, slogan and motto of the APC when they were presented for adoption at the meeting.
According to him, “Only the Merger Committee has the final authority on any issue about the proposed merger.
All the decisions the governors arrived at in their meeting were presented to the larger committee for approval and we all deliberated on them and arrived at a consensus on the grounds that there must be give and take by all the political parties. On Tuesday, there was no dissent from any group after the meeting of the governors with the Merger Committee. The proposal of the governors was endorsed by the chairmen of each of the merger committees of the political parties.
“This is a process, before you write to INEC of your intentions to merge; you must accompany the letter with the name of your party, the logo, slogan, manifesto and constitution of your party. This is why it is important the sub committees are set up because it is part of the process of the merger.
“The first thing to do is for each of the merging parties to write to INEC of its intention to merge, after which the parties will call a convention to secure the mandate to merge. It is after that mandate is given at the party’s convention, to which INEC will send observers that the process of winding up will begin so as to join the merger.
“Then, those parties will have to surrender their certificates of registration and identity to INEC, which means the ACN, CPC, ANPP and others will cease to exist as registered political parties.”
Naij.com
Mohammed told DailyPost in Abuja on Thursday that each of the three major parties – ACN, Congress for Progressive Change, CPC and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP would cease to exist after the first APC National Convention in April.
The convention is expected to ratify the formation of the new party.
According to Mohammed, the parties had ratified the draft of the APC’s logo, manifesto and constitution as proposed by its NEC/legal compliance committees, which were inaugurated a fortnight ago.
He said, the logo, slogan and motto were unanimously adopted after Tuesday’s meeting of the larger committee with the governors elected on the platform of the parties.
He said there were no objections to the logo, slogan and motto of the APC when they were presented for adoption at the meeting.
According to him, “Only the Merger Committee has the final authority on any issue about the proposed merger.
All the decisions the governors arrived at in their meeting were presented to the larger committee for approval and we all deliberated on them and arrived at a consensus on the grounds that there must be give and take by all the political parties. On Tuesday, there was no dissent from any group after the meeting of the governors with the Merger Committee. The proposal of the governors was endorsed by the chairmen of each of the merger committees of the political parties.
“This is a process, before you write to INEC of your intentions to merge; you must accompany the letter with the name of your party, the logo, slogan, manifesto and constitution of your party. This is why it is important the sub committees are set up because it is part of the process of the merger.
“The first thing to do is for each of the merging parties to write to INEC of its intention to merge, after which the parties will call a convention to secure the mandate to merge. It is after that mandate is given at the party’s convention, to which INEC will send observers that the process of winding up will begin so as to join the merger.
“Then, those parties will have to surrender their certificates of registration and identity to INEC, which means the ACN, CPC, ANPP and others will cease to exist as registered political parties.”
Naij.com
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