Sources reveal that Gen Muhammadu Buhari, leader of opposition
party CPC and would-be 2015 presidential candidate, recently met Governor Rabiu
Musa Kwakwanso of Kano State. According to the source, this meeting is part of
moves for Kwakwanso to move to the opposition parties' new alliance, shortly
after it has been registered as a political party with the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
It has also been revealed that the merged opposition party is
planning to slightly modify its chosen name and acronym – The All Progressives
Congress (APC) – because of the controversy that has surrounded the acronym,
with the emergence of two political organisations – the African People's
Congress (APC) and All Patriotic Citizens (APC) – purportedly claiming first
registration rights to the acronym.
According to sources, the plan is to retain the first and last
letters in the acronym (A and C) but change the second letter (P) to some other
suitable word that reflects the merger.
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