We’re merging to save Nigeria –ACN, CPC, ANPP

The three leading opposition political parties, the Action Congress of Nigeria, Congress for Progressive Change and the All Nigeria Peoples Party, on Tuesday said their plan to merge was to save the country from collapse.

Their leaders spoke in Abuja at the presentation of Manifesto of a Nigerian Opposition Politics, written by a civil rights activist, Mr. Salihu Lukman.

According to the ACN National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, all progressives must unite in order to send the ruling Peoples Democratic Party out of power in 2015.

This, he said, was necessary in order to save the country and its people from the “misrule” of the PDP-led Federal Government.

Represented by the party’s National Secretary, Senator Lawan Shuaib, Akande said, “Nigerian and its people are at crossroads. We must move fast and save the country from the PDP. That is the essence of the merger.”

Also, the CPC National Leader and a former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), called on Nigerians not to lose hope.

Posterity, he said, would not forgive the opposition leaders if they allowed personal agenda to mar the proposed merger plan.

Buhari, represented by a former Deputy Governor of Bauchi State, Alhaji Garba Gadi, said the desire to consummate the relationship would make the CPC inaugurate its merger team by Wednesday (today).

He said, “By morrow (today), the CPC will inaugurate a committee on the proposed merger talk. This is to show that we are determined about it and we must not fail.”

The ANPP National Chairman, Dr. Ogbonaya Onu, said the 2015 political battle would be between the conservatives and the progressives.

Describing the PDP as the conservatives, Onu said the party had failed the nation.

He said, “By the grace of God, we will make it in 2015. The 2015 election battle will be between the conservatives and the progressives. The conservatives have been in power since 1999 and people have been dying of hunger since then.

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