ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Thursday give its verdict on the request by leading opposition parties to coalesce and be registered as the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) had teamed up to form the coalition on whose platform they would challenge the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 elections.
The parties had on June 12 submitted an interim application to INEC for the registration of APC which was accompanied by a list of nine interim executive members of the party contrary to the guidelines that all the 35 executive positions must be filled.
Following the commission’s insistence that the application should be accompanied by the full list of the leadership of the budding political party, the opposition parties, having resolved the crisis over the constitution of an interim executive council for the APC, redressed the situation by submitting another application on July 1, which was accompanied by the list of the 35 executive members, headed by ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande.
Going by the Electoral Act 2010, as amended, a group seeking registration as a political party is assumed to have been registered if after 30 days of the submission of the application, there was no response from INEC objecting to its registration.
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