Imo ACN, ANPP, CPC Differ On Merger Fears

As the national leadership of leading opposition political parties in the country fine tune strategies to ensure the success of its merger, the Imo State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has advised other opposition parties in the State not to panic.

UBA---Imo ACN Chair

The party’s position is coming on the heels of fears harboured by other opposition parties in the State involved in the merger arrangement that the ACN being the dominant opposition parties will subsume other parties in the event the merger is consummated.

According to the party’s Imo State Secretary, Chris Oguoma, there is no basis for such fears as the ACN is disposed to carry along other parties in the merger.

AJUMBE...ANPP Chair

‘Much as we are the dominant party in the merger, there is no cause for alarm. There will be congresses, even if ACN members dominate the entire structure of the proposed mega party because we are bigger, everyone in other parties will be carried along’ he said

In his reaction, the Imo State ANPP boss, Vitalis Ajumbe, said there is no basis for one to allude that the ACN or any other party will subsume other parties in the proposed merger.  ‘We are the only party that holds regular meetings; our members are in- tact, unlike in other opposition parties where most of its members have left out of hunger’  

The Congress of Progressive Change (CPC) in the State also refuted fears that the party will go into political extinction when the merger takes off. The party’s Secretary, Chikodi Ogu, said there is no cause for alarm for its members as it is only parties that have no structure that fear that they will go extinct when the merger is finalized.