APC Interim Mgt: CPC Concedes Secretary To ANPP

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  After days of brinkmanship and delays within the ranks of the opposition, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has eventually conceded the position of secretary to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) in the proposed All Progressive Congress (APC).
  
  The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), which got the office of chairman, had agreed with the CPC to zone the secretary’s office, which is the second most important office, to the CPC.
  
  But the ANPP had kicked against it and insisted on the office because it had three states, Borno, Yobe and Zamfara, as against CPC’s one state (Nasarawa).
  
  That had mainly been responsible for the delays in constituting the management committee all along.
  
  The CPC, however, got the office of deputy national chairman, treasurer, deputy secretary, and youth leader.
  
  The ANPP last Saturday raised a committee, headed by its national chairman, Ogbonnaya Onu, to distribute the slots allotted to the party in the APC merger arrangement.
  
  The committee, constituted at the NEC of the party, was also mandated to continue merger talks with the other partners.
  
  The offices allotted to the ANPP include national secretary, national financial secretary, deputy national organising secretary, national welfare secretary, deputy national publicity secretary, two vice chairmen, and two ex-officio members.
  
  Others in the Onu-led committee are governors - of Borno State, Kassim Shettima; Zamfara State, Abdullazeez Yari; and Yobe State, Ibrahim Geidam.
  
  Also in the committee are the former governors of the party, including Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, Senator Sani Ahmed Yerima, Senator Buka Abba Ibrahim and Ibrahim Kwankwaso. The national secretary, Tijjani Tumsah, and national treasurer, Alhaji Shaibu Musa are also in the committee.
  
  The 89-member merger committee, drawn from the merging parties, had last week announced the end of their assignment of streamlining the modalities for the emergence of the interim leadership of the merger party.
  
  They also referred further work on the registration of the APC to the individual parties.
  
  However, the parties will meet today to harmonise their positions and fill all the offices before submitting the final list to INEC this week.