Osoba Dismisses Alliance For CAN

The immediate past Governor of Ogun and a chieftain of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Segun Osoba, says the party is not in any alliance and will not be part of any alliance again.

“Our experience of alliance in the past failed us and we do not wish to have the experience again, especially at this critical poliical time,” Osoba said. Our correspondent reports that 32 progressive political parties under the auspices of Patriotic Electoral Alliance of Nigeria on Wednesday announced an alliance.

The parties announced the alliance in a communiqué they issued at the end of a parley in Abuja. The communiqué was signed by a former Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande. The communiqué said that the ACN, ANPP, CPP, APN, DPA, MDJ, CPC, SDMP and others are to present common candidates at all levels during the 2011 general elections.

According to the communiqué, the others included the APGA, ADC, UNPP, LP, NPC and MMN, DPP, KOWA, NCP, NAP and PAC.

However, Osoba told newsmen that “The ACN was not part of the arrangement; the ACN is ready to merge with any party willing to work with it but not form an alliance.

“For now, the ACN has merged with the DPP and is still open to any other parties willing to join.”

On the likely presidential candidate for the party, Osoba said that all aspirants would go through the party’s primary elections.

On the crisis rocking the Governor’s Forum, Osoba said, “It is a non-issue.

“It is funny how we make an issue of a crisis in an organisation that has no function as the Governor’s Forum.”