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Internal crisis: APC to settle for neutral logo

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The newly formed All Progressive Congress party has opted to have a neutral logo as the solution to the crisis within the party.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, All Nigeria Peoples Party, Congress for Progressive Congress and a faction of the All  Progressive Grand Alliance are merging to form the yet-to-be registered political party by the Independent National Electoral Commission.

The temporary logo only has a broom, corn and pen, which are symbols of ACN, CPC and ANPP respectively.

Some members of APGA in the new party however kicked against the non-inclusion of the cock, which is the party’s logo.

The issue made representatives of APGA at a recent meeting of the merging parties held in Abuja to walk out. They, however, returned to the meeting after much persuasion.

Because of this, it was learnt that the leadership of the party was under pressure to go for a neutral symbol that will not include the logo of its member parties

A reliable source in the APC, who pleaded anonymity, conformed this on Saturday.

He said, “What we have resolved to do is to have a logo that is neutral, one that will prove to all that as a political party, we are prepared to offer Nigerians a fresh start.

“We considered the implications of having the symbols of the three leading parties in the merger but soon realised that others who are coming to join us may feel left out.”

The source also explained that the APC had equally learnt a lesson from the crisis rocking the All Progressives Grand Alliance.

“Imagine what would have happened if we had unveiled a logo which has a symbol of APGA only for factions of the party to dissociate themselves from it,” he said.

The National Publicity Secretary of the CPC, Rotimi Fashakin, told   on Saturday that APC was still working on its logo.

“We have decided to hold any announcement on the logo in abeyance to allow for wider consultation. As far as I know,  we are working to carry everybody along. Politics is all about consultations and consensus building.”

Meanwhile, the National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria, Mr. Lai Mohammed, has said since the opposition parties came together, there had been several attempts aimed at causing disaffection in their ranks.

Mohammed said while it was correct that the new party was yet to adopt a new logo, there were those who were bent on using the matter to cause trouble among the members.

“There are people bent on causing trouble and disaffection in the new party. They will not succeed.

“These set of people are bent on working against the merger. They don’t know that we are resolute in the merger,” he said.

Asked if the unnamed enemies are from another political party or even within the merging parties, he said it could be from either of the two or from both.

He said, “They can be from other parties that are afraid of our coming together, because they never thought it would be possible for us.

“They can also be within us, those working for the enemy. But one thing that has been working for us is that we didn’t set any condition for ourselves when we started the merger.

“We are very truthful to ourselves and this has been helping us.”

On the workings of the three committees set up on Wednesday, Mohammed said they would meet the two weeks deadline given to them.

The three committees are to produce the constitution, manifesto, which will include the motto, slogan and message while the last committee- legal and constitutional compliance, will handle documentation on how to meet the legal requirements for its registration by INEC.

“They know they have to work harder in order to be able to meet INEC’s deadline because we have to submit these documents with our application for registration to INEC,” Mohammed added.