Apc Merger: C’ttee Winds Up Assignment

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  The 89-member merger committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC)  yesterday announced its dissolution and declared that the individual merging parties would henceforth complete the registration request of the proposed party with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
  
  The committee, in a press briefing to signal the completion of their assignment, said they had provided all the modalities needed for the establishment of an acceptable interim leadership of the merging party.
  
  Speaking on behalf of the committee, Joint chairman of the merger committee, Tom Ikimi said the 89 members in the past five months have made notable progress in the drive towards actualising the dream of merging the well established opposition party into one formidable party that will provide Nigerians an alternative platform for change in the nation.
  
  “It is now one month since after our conventions we have the utmost respect for the various party leadership that constituted us. And many of us here are part of those leadership and it is time to move on to the next stage.
  
  “In the view of this committee we believe that we have completed the assignment that brought us here, to work out the modalities for merger. And these modalities has permitted us to hold conventions to approve the merger.”
  
  What remains to be done is registration with INEC, submitting our forms in accordance with the regulations extant of INEC regulations and constitution. We believe that this aspect of the work should be carried out by the leadership of the various parties.
  
  Ikimi said, “I therefore have the gratitude of all of us here to all our various party for giving us the opportunity to carry out this assignment. I therefore announce today that the work of this committee has come to an end. And that the committee stands by to be reconvened as may be necessary in the future to carry out assignments for any other exercise.
  
  Responding to a question on the interim leadership of the party Ikimi said “all the modalities for setting up an acceptable interim leadership has been worked out by this committee and sent to our various party leadership we believe that they would consider the report we have sent to them and do what is right.”
  
  He refuted any claim of rancour in selection of the interim leadership saying “I have narrated to you what we have done and our assignment which we have successfully completed.