Nigeria’s Key Opposition Party Approves Merger Plan
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Action Congress of Nigeria, the country’s main opposition party, approved a plan to merge with two parties and a faction of a third ahead of the elections in 2015, an official said.
ACN, as the party is known, will fuse with the Congress of Progressive Change, the All Nigeria People’s Party and a splinter group of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, Chairman Bisi Akande said today at a convention in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The new party, All Progressives Congress, will challenge President Goodluck Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party.