National convention will be held after for the party executives after the end of the six month.
According to report by Punch newspaper, the interim leaders of the All Progressives
Congress are to be in office for six months, investigations have
revealed.
With this, the officers are to continue on their
job till January 2014 and may be the officers to conduct the presidential
primaries of the new political party.
A chief of the party, who spoke with our
correspondent in Abuja on Monday, said the officers wouldn’t leave office
before the conduct of the primaries.
A member of the party, who is also a former
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Tom Ikimi, confirmed the story.
He said the committee would stay in office for
six months before the conduct of convention.
Ikimi said, “They might be there for the next six
months and that is what we agreed on. It is after this that we would hold our
convention.”
The interim officers are to meet in Abuja on
Tuesday (today).
Meanwhile, a former Minister of Power and Steel,
Mr. Paul Unongo, has said the registration of APC would pose a threat to the
continued dominance of the PDP in the country.
Unongo told the News Agency of Nigeria on
Monday in Makurdi that the new party posed a real threat to the ruling party
judging by its spread across the country.
He said the fusion of the three parties showed
that it had majority spread in the South-West, the North-West and the
North-Central.
Unongo, who is a chief of the PDP in Benue, said
the emergence of APC was good for the survival of democracy in the
country.
In the same vein, a member of the House of
Representatives, Mr. Yakubu Balogun, says the registration of the APC has
shown that the nation’s democracy has entered a new dawn of mature politics.
He said the advent of the APC would also create a
platform for the people to make an informed choice in future elections in the
country.
Balogun, who represents Lagos Island Federal
Constituency 2 in the National Assembly, said, “The registration of APC is not
only good for robust competition, it also showed that our democracy is
maturing.
“Insinuations in some quarters that the party was
formed to just hijack power from PDP is not true. This is because such an idea
can never be a basis for the existence of any party.
Nigerians are more than curious to see if the new giant APC will push the ancient giant PDP aside come 2015. Or what do you think?
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