{"id":30504,"date":"2014-08-24T17:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30504"},"modified":"2014-08-24T17:06:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:06:34","slug":"apc-raises-alarm-plot-register-another-acn-anpp-cpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/apc-raises-alarm-plot-register-another-acn-anpp-cpc\/","title":{"rendered":"APC Raises Alarm Over Plot To Register Another ACN, ANPP and CPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a plan by<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">unscrupulous and apparently-hired hands to relaunch the acronym battle<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">against the party by seeking to register three new parties that bear the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">acronyms of the same parties that merged to become the APC.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a statement issued in Lagos on Sunday by its National Publicity<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said those behind the phantom<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">parties, who are apparently working at the behest of people who have a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">mortal fear of the APC, have applied to INEC to register the Allied<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Council of Nigeria (ACN); Advanced National Patriotic Party (ANPP) and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Conservative People\u2019s Congress (CPC).<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It said the fact that the acronyms of the three entities tally with those<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of the APC component parties (ACN, ANPP and CPC) is not accidental, but a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">grand design by those who have been having sleepless nights since the APC<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">was registered.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dIt is worthy of note that the three applications to INEC for the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">registration of the three organizations as political parties were made on<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the same day. Apparently, common sense takes flight in the face of great<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">desperation!<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dTheir plan is simple: Once the parties are registered, they will then<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">apply to change their logos to those of the original ACN, ANPP and CPC,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and then hope to be on the ballot for next year\u2019s general elections. Just<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">before the elections, the sponsors of the phantom parties will then send<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">out messages saying the APC has splintered into its component parties for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the purpose of the election. Whatever happens, their plan is to confuse<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the electorate and hamper the electoral fortunes of the APC,\u201d the party<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">said.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">APC called on INEC not to succumb to the antics of those who are planning<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to sabotage the 2015 general elections and win elections by subterfuge.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dThis acronym battle is a part of the larger war against our party to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">prevent its registration. Nigerians will recollect that the same people,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">apparently, applied to register a phantom APC the moment it became clear<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that our merger would succeed and that INEC would register our party,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">having met all the requirements to consummate the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">merger.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201dThankfully, INEC refused to compromise its neutrality and integrity and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">chose to act in accordance with the law by registering our party. We urge<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the electoral body to do the same now, in the face of unprecedented<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">desperation by those who believe they can only win elections by cutting<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">corners,\u201d the party said.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All Progressives Congress (APC) has raised the alarm over a plan byunscrupulous and apparently-hired hands to relaunch the acronym battleagainst the party by seeking to register three new parties&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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