APC: Opposition Coalition Approves Logo, Slogan

Opposition coalition political parties have finally approved a logo and slogan for their new party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). The logo of the party released late Tuesday night is a broom on a green, white, blue and red background.APC has its motto as ‘Justice, Peace and Unity while its slogan is ‘Change’.

Addressing the media after several hours of joint meeting to APC governors and merger committees held at Chief Tom Ikimi’s residence in Abuja, Ikimi said the broom represents the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), while the flours represents All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

Ikimi said deliberations at the meeting was smooth, adding that the parties were now fully merged.

Also, as part of the issues resolved at the meeting of the APC governors with the merger committees, THISDAY gathered that the opposition coalition are proposing April 27 for the new party’s convention.

The merger committees agreed in principle to set up a 20-man caretaker committee with five members from each of the merging parties to take charge of affairs at the state level as the tentative date to hold simultaneous national conventions to formalise their merger.

THISDAY also gathered from the meeting that the merger committees have agreed to appoint a 20-member caretaker committee to oversee the roll-out of the new party in all the states of the federation.

The merger committees agreed in principle to set up a 20-man caretaker committee with five members from each of the merging parties to take charge of affairs at the state level.

“April 27 is being proposed for simultaneous national conventions to be held at different cities by all the merging parties, “ he said.

It was learnt that APC governors had to be called-in to take part in the negotiations so as to help trash out the outstanding issues.

The source said following the intense lobby by the ACN to have its logo, the Broom, as the substantive logo for APC, its governors took it upon themselves to try to persuade their colleagues to calm down and consider using the ACN logo.

The source said there was an initial disagreement over the logo amidst grumblings by other parties who alleged that Chief Tom Ikimi was favoring ACN members and giveung more opportunity to speak at meetings in order to drive home the party’s agenda.

Present at yesterday’s meeting were nine of the APC state governors except the Borno state Governor, and Yobe state Governor who was represented by his Deputy.