The national leaders of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) converged on Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, yesterday to seek the support of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in a bid to realise their drive for a mega merger of all opposition political parties in the country towards wresting power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which they accused of compounding Nigeria's problems.
Making known their mission in the state, the leader of the delegation and former governor of Kano State and presidential flag bearer of the ANPP in the last general elections, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, stressed the need for all opposition political parties to come together and agree on common grounds early enough, rather than hurriedly tailored electoral alliances on the eve of polls.
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