Leader of ANPP, Malam Shekarau on a recent visit to Edo State Government House – following the announcement of APC formation.
The formation of the new mega party under the unifying mantra to unseat the ruling party at the center of power in Abuja may have been conceived with true spirited desire to right the wrongs that had plagued the easy flow of democratic dividends to the entire citizenry of the country – but its actual implementation may have begun to suffer the symptoms of intrinsic political and a volatile cocktail of religious and cultural divide.
A competent source involved in the formation project revealed to 247ureports.com the difficulties faced by the new mega party. He stated that they pose/threaten to forestall the good willed efforts of the new project. As gathered, the group of stake holders who were assembled to iron out the workability of the new mega – had estimated the announcement of the party merger will be followed immediately by the announcement of a party chairman and other sensitive positions. But the project suffered derailment owing to power struggle between the northern elements in the merger group and the south west elements.
In particular, it was understood that the stakeholders representing the Congress for Progressive Change – the CPC, the All Nigeria Peoples Party – the ANPP, are determined to produce the presidential candidate for the 2015 presidential elections – while the south west dominated Action Congress of Nigeria – the ACN, appear equally determined to produce the presidential candidate.
Our source states that the south west elements had initially expressed willingness to settle for the Vice Presidential slot. But they opted to throw their cards on the table when it became certain that General Buhari may be presented as the candidate of the merger party. General Buhari’s possible emergence did not come as welcome news to the south west and majority of southern elements within the group. For this reason, the expected smooth sail of the merger party stalled.
The soiled and/or stormy relationship existing between the leader of the ANPP – Malam Shekarau and the leader of the CPC – General Buhari – dating back to the days when Buhari and Shekarau battled for the leadership position in the ANPP – has further obstructed the smooth implementation of the merger project. The messy relationship has become the biggest obstacle to the allocation of slots to the parties.
According to the stakeholders of the merger, four sensitive slots were to be shared amongst the merging parties. The four slots including – the office of the president, the office of the vice president, the office of the new party, and the office of the secretary to the Federal Government – were to be agreed upon and shared.
But the leaders of both ANPP and CPC have expressed strong unflinching desire to fill the slot of President. Both Shekarau and Buhari have expressed intentions of vying for the presidential ticket in the new mega party. And neither has should interest of backing down for the other. Shekarau has already begun consultations with the Governor of Edo State as possible running mate while Buhari has concluded talks with his running mate, Bola Tinubu.
As a result, a volatile cocktail brews within the merger group – and it appears on the verge of implosion. This is according to the source who continued to add that the time schedule of milestones achievements against the run up to 2015 have been delayed considerably. “We are now engaged in meetings over other issues like setting up the structure of the new party – the zonal structures, the nature of the board of trustee, the nature of the working committees, party logo, etc“, said the source.
My fellow blacks, ie Northern muslems. Don’t panic whenever you hear that name Biafra. I don’t know how to call hausa and fulani Islamic names because I swore not to take them upon my lips. Biafra is a sure Nation. You people have seen the way u ruled and messed the country for years and are begging the rest Tribe to help Unite and redeem it. NIGERIA IS A FAILED STATE. APC or no APC all is jamboree
real jamboree to wrestle the control of revenue from crude oil from the ruling party. Between the names in PDP and APC, they are two sides of the same coin. The devil you knew is better than the angel you do not know. Above all, few now take APC to cure ailments.
This is a baseless infor as there is no reference regards to it. PDP should go to hell, for any body like shekarau to declare interest to run for the presidential electn, Hhm. We wholly belong to the people’s general and no one else, even if it is at the cost of our lives we are ready to continue with it.
People like p.jimmey are ignorant of themself talkless of 9ja history gong by the history igbo has been deprived of any position that may be
Reguarded as key position in this9ja & u stupid jimmy get mouth 2 call goog people criminals
You are a foolish hooligan jimmy. Idiots like you always talk irresponsibly.
I have been hearing a lot of noise about the All Progressive Congress (APC) over the last week but have been too busy to respond. Now that the Nations cup is out of the way, let us look at the issue seriously
[2] Indeed the PDP has done nothing but rob Nigeria blind since 1999 but does the APC really represent any change?
[3] Are about half of the APC members not former members of the PDP who left when they could not get positions they sought?
[4] Take Buhari’s CPC for instance. It’s leaders are essentially former PDP big whigs who were in Yar’Adua’s kitchen cabinet who Goodluck sacked because of their cabalistic activities
[5] If you look at the southwest two, you will notice that there is constant swapping of parties between the members of the ACN and PDP
[6] Is this so-called merger going to be put to the members of these parties in the form of a vote? If its leaders are sincere about democracy, that should be the least they do
[7] Will this new party have as a manifesto pledge a promise to bar anyone tainted with corruption of indicted from public office? That would mean people like Bola Tinubu who have outstanding cases with the EFCC are not allowed to influence public office
[8] Will the APC hold genuine primary elections? Tinubu and Buhari do not believe in primaries. Their parties just appoint whoever they want as candidates
[9] Will the APC tell us that it will expel members associated with truncating democracy in the past. Surely, they must see that getting Tom Ikime, Abacha’s henchman to announce the launch of the party does not portray them in a good light
[10] For starters, can the APC come out and tell Rochas Okorocha to go back to his party and get a mandate before negotiating. Surely, this is a basic tenant of democracy.
Now as per policies, can the APC come up with a manifesto like this:
[1] Life imprisonment, with no possibility of parole for public officials found guilty of corruption
[2] A scrapping of sharia law in all the 36 states of Nigeria
[3] A commitment to scrapping the current federal allocation regime whereby money is shared among governors monthly
[4] A return to the 1957/58 fiscal federalism formula under which the federating units are responsible for control of the resources in their domain
[5] Under this regime, the states will keep 50%, put 30% into a central emergency pot and only 20% will go to the federal government
[6] Local governments will be given full autonomy and be wholly independent of their governors
[7] Every state in Nigeria must commit to spending at least 15% of its GDP on education
[8] All public officials will be barred from going abroad for medical treatment and sending their children to foreign universities
[9] Every state must raise enough revenue to meet its running costs. Any state that fails to do so, will have a state of emergency declared in it
[10] Women will occupy 50% of all public offices as from 2015 at all federal and state levels.
If they can do this, then yes, we can start to take them seriously. For now, they are just another wing of the theiving PDP
I think this report was actually sponsored and one of pdp’s strategies to distablise APC. No way, our eyes are now opened and we are expecting more of these distabling steps as we are ready too to dodge them. RIP pdp come and before 2015.
This setup is definitely not to sweep away bad leadership for the good one,
not at all, it is a sweaty struggle only to dislodge a particular political party.
Disgruntled elements who saw themselves suddenly outside the corridor of power are fighting tooth and nail to reclaim position,
and some deluded elements are following suit. The merger by the opposition ludicrously has an unpopular goal of sending the PDP packing,
and not rendering good governance to the people. My word to the merger caucus is;
instead of sweating profusely to send the PDP away and then step in to wreck more havoc,
why don’t they articulate an appealing manifesto and present to the Nigerian people and beg for their support. Again,
should the merger be all about Buhari and Tinubu? What huge difference is there sincerely for the likes of the duo to make?
This is a hatchet job quoting only an unnamed and undescribed source and not speaking to anyone in the APC. The new mega party has made it clear that they are at the stage of manifesto and party establishment and nothing else.Their is an interim chair to the merger committee which serves as the transition chair.I expect that the National Chair will emerge in a convention.This merger will work,whether PDP sponsors reports or not.
This party is coming barely too late. So many of the aforementioned issues ought to have been resloved before now. Another issue that may arise is religious angle to the whole saga. The hiearachy of the new party will be predominantly muslim and may not enjoy the expected popular appeal.
THIS IS A JIHADIST AND TERRORIST PARTY. A PARTY OF CRIMINALS LIKE BUHARI AND DRUG BARON TINUBU CANNOT ACHIEVE ANYTHING. THE PARTY IS DOOMED AS FROM DAY ONE. THIS PARTY WILL NEVER HAVE FOOT IN BIAFRALAND. WHAT BIAFRANS WANT NOW IS BIAFRA REPUBLIC.
We wish you well in your biafra republic.
But please be sensible enough to desist calling people criminals when they have not been convicted by a court.
Jimmy, truly u are not a prince; for true blue blooded prince don’t talk like u do. Princes talk as nobles – not as rascals.
An Igbo saying has it that ‘Any Igbo who calls himself/herself a princess/princess, ask them who is their father and the truth will be revealed’.