CPC/ APC REPORT FOR MONDAY
The ruling All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) is responsible for all the misfortunes of Borno state, including the Boko Haram-induced insecurity, ex-members of defunct Congress for Progressive Change and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said.
The two parties who are now members of the newly registered All Progressive Congress (APC) had their last meeting ahead their expected formal merger with the state's ruling ANPP.
We all know that Borno state problem is the ANPP; since 1999 to date, the ANPP ruled Borno state and the dividends of democracy ANPP is giving Borno people is the present insecurity and instability', the state chairman of CNPP, Comrade Babagana Musa said in his speech.
The incompetence of the present ANPP government in Borno state leads to so many hardship; so many pledges made by the present ANPP are not fulfilled; and due to lapses of the ANPP government, they cannot show a single project that they executed in two years.
The CNPP chairman's comment was however disowned by other chairmen of the merging parties who quickly pointed out to newsmen that 'all said was the personal opinion of Musa and not the opinion of this meeting'.
Earlier, the chairman of the defunct Borno CPC, Ibrahim Elzubairu, who chaired the meeting that was tagged 'Fusion of CPC/ACN in Borno', noted that the new APC in Borno 'is a new beginning, politically, free from the divisive, restricted politics of recent past, characterized by fear and hero worship'.
The chairman of the defunct ACN, Kawu Tijjani, pointed out that 'the APC should not be seen as a mere change in name for any of the parties in the merger project'. 'We should not forget that the emergence of the APC is a voluntary collaboration of three major parties in Nigeria, which comprise of the ACN. ANPP, CPC and other splinters of DPP and APGA'.
The ex-chairmen of ACN and CPC had earlier commended their respective national leaders of their party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd). They both, however, commended Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, for what they described as his 'timely support for the merger alongside his courageous colleagues in the progressive governors' forum'.
While fielding questions from journalists after the well attended pst APC registration meeting, the chairman of CPC said they can only vouch for their parties' sincerity in the merger, 'but we cannot speak for the ANPP on this".