Political parties, which fused into the All Progressives Party, APC, have concluded plans to stop the May 4 local government elections in Kogi State.
Rising from a meeting at Idah in the East Senatorial District of the state, the APC members said a team of lawyers had been constituted to file a suit to stop the polls.
A chieftain of the yet-to- be registered party, Dr. Umar Akwu, said arrangement had been concluded to sue the state government and the State Independent Electoral Commission, SIEC, to postpone the May 4 elections.
Akwu said APC had already commissioned a team of lawyers to present its stand in court, adding that a decision on that was taken at Idah as well as at a stakeholders’ meeting in Lokoja.
He explained that the decision was taken because all the parties involved in the coalition had asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to return their respective original registration forms as they had fused into one party.
According to him, until INEC complies with the request and register the new party, the concerned parties stand disqualified to contest the said election, because they have lost their original identity to APC.
He said: “Look, all the parties involved in the formation of APC have lost their original identity. The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA and others who formed the APC have therefore lost their original identity and as such cannot participate in the council elections, except for the registration of the new party, APC. Our lawyers would soon appear in court.”
