Vanguard (Lagos)

Nigeria: ACN Leaders Meet in Osun On Merger

Osogbo — Leaders of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the South-West, will today, converge on Osogbo, the Osun State capital, to deliberate on issues affecting the party in the region in the light of the party's merger with others to form All Progressives Congress, APC.

The meeting, to be hosted by the state chapter of the party, is expected to be attended by five governors of the ACN controlled states of Osun, Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Ekiti States among other leaders of ACN.

Also expected at the meeting are the National Chairman of the party, Chief Adebisi Akande, National Leader of the party, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, former governors of Ogun and Ekiti States, Chief Olusegun Osoba and Chief Adeniyi Adebayo.

Vanguard gathered that top on the agenda of the meeting will include the merger of the opposition political parties in the country.

It was learnt that the party in the South-West would take a position on the place of the South- West ACN on the sharing of political offices in the newly formed APC at the end of the meeting.

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