APC Interim Officers To Stay In Office Till January 2014 ...Will Conduct Presidential Primaries

The new formed political party, All Progressive Congress, APC, interim officers to use six month in office. the interim officers will run the administration of the party from now on to January 2014 and will conduct the Presidential primaries of the party.


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.

“The formation of this mega party is obviously to provide alternative platform for the electorate to make the right choice in future elections in Nigeria.”

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?