ANTI NGIGE: ANPP, CPC IN ANAMBRA PULL OUT OF APC MERGER

The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC) in Anambra State have pulled out of the All Progressive
Congress(APC) merger ahead of Nov. 16 governorship election in the
state.
Mr Mike Igwilo, State Secretary of defunct ANPP, made this known to
newsmen in Awka on Thursday.
Igwilo said the party was pulling out because it was not consulted in
all the activities leading to the merger and the recent primaries in
the state that produced Sen. Chris Ngige as the flag bearer.
"We are marginalised in the party and not carried along. For this
reason, we find it difficult to explain the merger to our supporters
who now float like sheep without shepherd," he said.
Igwilo said that ANPP would make public its next plan of action before
the end of September.
At a separate news conference, Mr Chuba Ikeagwu, the state Chairman of
the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) told newsmen that the party
had joined the newly formed People's Democratic Movement (PDM).
He said the APC did not give a level playing ground for othermerging
political parties to compete for the governorship ticket in the
primaries alleging that only the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria
(ACN) controlled the party machinery in the state.
"There is no equity in the sharing of positions, ACN dominated and
took everything,'' Ikeagwu alleged.