The drive to dislodge the ruling party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] against the upcoming presidential elections of 2015 appear to have begun. This is as the recent announcement of a merger of four major political parties [Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change, All Nigeria Peoples Party and All Progressive Grand Alliance] into a unified party – renamed the All Progressive Congress [APC] has promised to truncate the PDP’s reign at the presidency come 2015.
Information available to 247ureports.com obtained from a competent source involved in the merger process revealed that the stakeholders of the new party met for a closed door meeting on night of Thursday February 7, 2013 to discuss on sharing of principal offices between the four political parties. The four principal offices to be discussed were said to be – the office of the President, Vice President, Chairman of the new party and the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria. The source indicated that by the morning of Friday February 8, 2013, the four positions would have been allocated to each of the units that came together to form the new party.
On the issue of Governorship elections, the source revealed that it was resolved to be handle State by State. As gathered, each state will be handled separately – in that – the gubernatorial candidate will emerge from the party that is the most popular among the four units that formulate the new party. For instance, where the ACN party is considered more dominant amongst the other parties in the State – the gubernatorial candidate will emerge from the ACN – and then the deputy governor would emerge from the other three less popular parties.
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The stakeholders are expected to make a public announcement on which unit will produce the presidential candidate.
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