By JOHNBOSCO AGBAKWURU

ABUJA – BARRING any last minutes change, the newly registered All Progressives Congress, APC, will hold its national convention to elect substantive national officers and state executives by January, 2014.

Vanguard investigation revealed that the present interim national executive, led by Chief Bisi Akande, was to stay in office not later than six months for the substantive executive to be put in place to steer the activities of the party in preparation for upcoming elections in the country.

A reliable source in the party told Vanguard yesterday that former national executive members of the three political parties that fused to APC, Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, will be meeting today at the party’s headquarters, Abuja, to deliberate on the setting up of structures at the states, local governments and ward levels.

The meeting is also expected to look at the modalities for registration and membership of the party by members of the political parties that formed APC as well as those intending to join from other parties.

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said:  “Tomorrow all the NEC of the whole parties and national interim executive committee are meeting.

“We will be discussing as members of the party, setting up structures in the states, in the local governments, in the ward and in the polling units.”

On the convention of the party, the source said the “convention will be next months, the interim executive will be in office not latter than six months from the date of registration.

“The party was registered on July 31, 2013, I think by January, we shall have our national convention. The interim executive will be in office for six months.”

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on July 31, announced the registration of merger political parties to APC.

The parties that applied to form a mega party were ACN, ANPP, CPC, a fraction of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA and Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, DPP.