ELECTION 2015: UPP to go into alliance with APGA

Ahead of the 2015 general election, the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, and the United Progressive Party (UPP) are on the verge of going into an alliance for the mutual benefit of their members all over the country. In a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, UPP national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, said that after an extensive consultation amongst the leaders of both parties, they resolved that in the interest of the members, the alliance was necessary since both parties share similar ideology, orientation and vision. “This is also in addition to the unprecedented fact that the two political parties are of the same parentage, with me (Okorie) being the founder of both parties.” The party’s performance at the 2003 general election, which was its first participation in an election shortly after it was registered, took the Nigerian political scene by storm. The party came third out of 30 registered political parties at the time in the 2003 presidential election
coming behind PDP and APP (ANPP). “We had designed a roadmap which was to be launched in the first week of January 2005 which would have placed the party as a major contender for the 2007 general election. On 15th December 2004, less than three weeks before the launching of our well- articulated roadmap, agents of Lucifer struck. These characters were obviously sponsored by forces that we later identified that were very scared of the political resurgence of the Igbo people of Nigeria who had accepted and embraced APGA.”