Action Congress
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The Action Congress is a Nigerian political party formed via the merger of the Alliance for Democracy, the Justice Party, the Advance Congress of Democrats, and several other minor political parties in September 2006. The party will allegedly run current Vice President Atiku Abubakar(who has also been disqualified by the Independent National Electoral Commission and is presently contesting that disqualification in the Federal High Court, Abuja Division), who is defecting from the People's Democratic Party, as it's presidential candidate in the 2007 presidential election. [1] Currently, the party's most prominent elected official is governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State.
In recent weeks, the party has been torn apart by in-house fighthing. This led to prominent party Chieftain and Lagos State Gubernatorial Candidate, Femi Pedro to decamp to the Nigeria Labour Party. Pedro cited gross manipulation within the party structure favouring Tinubu's candidates in South-Western Nigeria as his reason for dumping the newly-formed Party.[citation needed] Additionally, there have been rumours of cracks in the Party's initial alliance with the prominent national opposition party, the All Nigeria Peoples Party.[citation needed]
