The battle for ascendancy among the political opposition got messier, Thursday, after the brains behind the controversial African Peoples Congress, APC, emerged to unfold their logo, constitution and emblem.
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The new group whose aspiration for registration with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has thrown confusion into merger plans by the country's leading opposition political parties said, yesterday, that it was not doing a hatchet job on behalf of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
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The assertion, nonetheless, leaders of the fledgling All Progressive Congress, comprising Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN; Congress for Progressive Change, CPC; All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and elements of All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, nevertheless vowed to pursue their merger.
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At a press conference late, yesterday, the joint merger committee said its plans would not be derailed by the "mischief" of the African Peoples Congress and their sponsors.
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'We are on rescue mission' Speaking at a ceremony where the brains behind the emerging party were formally unveiled, the Acting National Chairman of African Peoples Congress, Chief Onyinye Ikeagwuonu, lamented what he described as poverty of leadership in the country since 1999, saying that the APC was on a rescue mission.
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He said: "The PDP, ACN, CPC, ANPP, etc have remorselessly squandered the goodwill of Nigerians. While infrastructure suffers in the states with the economy of the states wound round monthly allocations and diverted council funds."
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Asks EFCC to probe govs with private jets He called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to urgently investigate the sources of funds used to purchase private jets by some state governors and also condemned what he called the desperation of some people for power in the country.