Merger: ANPP, CPC hold conventions today

 The All Nigeria People’s Party, (ANPP) as well as the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) will hold their conventions today Saturday May 11, 2013.

The conventions are to ratify the decisions of the parties to merge ahead of the 2015 general elections.

While the ANPP would be holding its convention in Gusau, Zamfara State, that of the CPC is scheduled to hold at Eagle Square, Abuja.

National publicity secretary of the CPC, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, confirmed that the CPC convention would be holding in Abuja on Saturday as scheduled explaining that contrary to reports, no court has stopped the convention.

 He said under the Electoral Act, the convention would be to ratify the merger process and that the party is prepared for it.

The ANPP, CPC and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) have agreed to merge into one to form the All Progressives Congress (APC) and as part of the process, are required to hold conventions to ratify the decision.

The ACN held its convention in Lagos last month while  tomorrow’s conventions by the two remaining parties would serve to seal up the deal for the individual parties that they are ready to wind up and dissolve into the emerging party .