Why Planned ACN, CPC Alliance Failed

Date: 15-04-2011 4:44 am (13 years ago) | Author: Paul Eze
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The insistence of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to produce the vice president was responsible for the failure of the party’s planned alliance with the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the party’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, has said.

Mr. Buhari noted that with only a few days to the election, it was foolhardy to change his party’s vice presidential candidate.

“By the electoral laws, this was virtually impossible before this election. We suggested that they should let us jointly go into the elections and jointly form the government after our victory. But our friends were not ready to take us on our honour and went to the media,” he said.

In a statement signed by Mr. Buhari’s spokesman, Yinka Odumakin, the former head of state said the notion that he was responsible for the inability of his party and the ACN to forge an alliance ahead of Saturday’s polls was “baseless and unfounded.”

He said he was responding to set the record straight and regretted the inability of the parties to harness what he called their electoral fortunes.

Not exactly

The ACN, on the other hand, continues to blame Mr. Buhari for the missed opportunity. A source at the meeting said the CPC vice presidential candidate, Tunde Bakare, had behaved in a manner that suggested that he had no intention to honour the accord.

“We are aware of the electoral act. We did not say they should change their ticket now, but after the election,” says an ACN senior official.

NEXT learnt that although Mr. Bakare agreed to resign after the election, and even to write the resignation letter, he chose to address such a letter in a manner that gives him wiggle room.

“It was not a resignation as vice president but a letter addressed to the chairman of the board of trustees of his party offering to resign anytime Buhari is no longer happy with him, which left the room open, as the ACN guys saw it, for not resigning at all,” said the source.......

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- deboalabi262 at 15-04-2011 12:28 PM (13 years ago)
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With or Without alliance GEJ and PDP can be beaten in the Presidential election. The masses would determine this, Insha Allau...

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