BREAKING NEWS: ACN, CPC, ANPP finally merge into All Progressive Congress, APC
Thursday, February 07, 2013Omoba
Leading opposition parties in Nigeria on Wednesday
formally announced a new name under which it will contest the next presidential
election in 2015.
The parties, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All
Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) have adopted a common front called All
Progressive Congress (APC).
The announcement came after opposition governors
met earlier in the week to continue further talks on the plan. In a statement made available to newsmen in the
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, former Foreign Minister, Tom Ikimi of the
Action Congress of Nigeria averred, “At no time in our national life has
radical change become more urgent.
“And to meet the challenge of that change, we the
following progressive political parties, namely ACN, ANPP, APGA and CPC, have
resolved to merge forthwith and become the All Progressive Congress,” he
avowed.
The PDP has won every presidential election since
Nigeria’s return to civilian rule in 1999, and the decision by the opposition
to form a coalition was meant to oust the ruling party in the 2015 general
polls.
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