Prof. Utomi’s call for merger, a mere disturbance of airwaves- APC

Prof. Utomi’s call for merger, a mere disturbance of airwaves- APC

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has described the recent call for a mega party by Prof. Pat Utomi as dead on arrival. 

In a statement signed on Monday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Barr. Felix Morka, he said this is not the first time Utomi would be coming up with such a plan, adding that it’s a mere wishful thinking that shouldn’t be taken seriously.

National Periscope reported that the Political Economist disclosed in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday night that the presidential candidates of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi, and New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, have agreed to form a mega party that would wrestle power from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2027.

However, reacting to the news, APC Spokesperson said “As a serial promoter of mega parties that never materialize, Prof. Pat Utomi’s statement cannot be taken that seriously.  In 2021, Prof Utomi and his collaborators disturbed the airwaves with plans to launch a people-centered ideological mega party under the auspices of the National Consultative Front (NCFront) to dislodge the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). That plan did not go past the news headlines.”

Morka further accused Utomi of speaking from both sides of the month as he had earlier adjudged the patties as decadent and anti-people.

“Now in 2024, Prof. Utomi is touting a possible merger or collaboration between the Labour Party (LP), New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and the PDP, vastly the political parties, according to him, that are bereft of any ideological orientation or “did not manage to create an alignment with the Nigerian People to improve the quality of their lives.”

“One can only infer that Prof. Utomi may be positing that his personal involvement in the proposed alliance will transmogrify the same parties, he has adjudged to be decadent and anti-people, into bastions of political and economic liberty for Nigerians. That is an unmitigated delusion of grandeur.”