THE MERGER

 

On wednesday 31st of July,2013,the Independent National Electoral commission (INEC) finally approved the merger of three political parties : Action Congress Of Nigeria (ACN) The All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) and the Congress For Progressive Change (CPC) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).With prominent political members of the all new APC such as the publicity secretary of the APC Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola expressing happiness to be part of the first merger in the country's democratic history,i can help but wonder how this would all pan out.I mean three different parties with individual party members aspiring to be candidates or flagbearers now have more people to contend with to earn the partys' ticket.There is also gist that 23 state governors have  already declared their interest to join the party,hmmm.Would this merger be drama free,a success?Do you think it would be strong enough to contend with the ruling party come 2015???