Promoters of APC are noise makers,says Jega

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Written by Abdullateef Abubakar Jos

Jega spoke during a popular Hausa phone-in programme, Hanu Dayawa, in Kaduna.

He revealed that it was not until the other group applied to the INEC for registration

guidelines that the arrowheads of the opposition parties notified (INEC), “five or six days

ago”, of their intention to merge.

“The truth is that no political party has written to notify us that it is planning to merge with

some other political parties until the past five days or so. The issue became serious when

one group came out to seek registration. I guess that was what made them (All

Progressive Congress) to write and notify us”, he stated.

He pointed out that “in spite of all the noise going on, none of these political parties who

want to merge has held their convention. We only read in the newspapers that they have

the intention of merging and nobody wrote (to) us”.

The Political Science don, noted that” all these (sic) noise is just our politics in Nigeria”

and, revealed the INEC had advised the merging party to “look for another name” to avoid

confusion.

“Somebody first came with the name and we have explained that we are already screening

the person who first came with the name. We have told them to look for another name”, he

averred.

He said the name change had become necessary if the opposition APC would want to be

registered, “because it is not possible to register three groups with the same name”.

However, it is the Commission’s word against the merger APC’s, as his leaders have vowed

to retain the name and controversial acronym, which they claimed was their “intellectual

property”.