Acn S-South leaders strategise to capture more states

By Simon Ebegbulem
THE Leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the South South zone, met in Benin City, Edo State, Thursday, with a view to strategise on how to capture more states in the zone come 2011.

Vanguard learnt that the leaders of the party had perfected plans to capitalise on the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  in many states of the South South, including Bayelsa, the home state of President Goodluck Jonathan.

The meeting was held at the residence of the Vice Chairman of the party (South South), Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at close door. However, Senator Adego Eferakeya (Delta State) who briefed newsmen , said, the party was prepared to meet the deadline of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, as regards submission of names of candidates for the elections.

Saying that the party had resolved to win more states from the zone come the next elections, the Senator stressed that “we must work hard and be united so that we can win more states because as you know, ACN is the only party contending with PDP.  We also spoke about the primaries which are coming up, the dates will be fixed very soon but tentatively, we expect that the primaries of the Action Congress of Nigeria tentatively would be on the 6 for the state Houses of Assembly, 8, National Assembly, on the 11, the governorship and on the 15 of January 2011 will be the presidential primaries.

“We have all been told that there will be a meeting of the national, which  will ratify  some of these dates, which  may also change. We are also looking forward to collecting forms of expression of interest and nomination forms, which you know are very essential before primaries can be conducted. Essentially, all members here present have said they are prepared to work hard because they know that divided we fall untied we stand,” he added.