Saturday 9 February 2013

Crisis hits new mega opposition party


A few days after its birth, mega opposition party, the All Progressive Congress, is battling with an internal crisis that is threatening its existence, SUNDAY PUNCH has learnt.
It was gathered that the four parties that came together to form the APC had yet to agree on the symbol to be embossed on the new party’s logo.
 
It was also learnt that moves to share positions among the four constituent parties on Thursday night were stalled by the crisis that had hit one of the merger partners, the All Progressive Grand Alliance.
 
Besides APGA, other parties in the APC are the Congress for Progressive Change, the Action Congress of Nigeria and the All Nigeria Peoples Party.
 
Investigations by one of our correspondents in Abuja on Friday, showed that while some APC members favoured the broom as the party’s symbol, others insisted that the corn and a pen should be added to the symbol.
 
While the broom is the symbol of the ACN, the corn and pen are the symbols of both the ANPP and the CPC respectively.
 
Originally, the adopted symbol was meant to be presented at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday where the new name of the party was unveiled.
 
The disagreement among the leaders was said to have thwarted the planned presentation.

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