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All Progressive Congress

All Progressives Congress
Chairman John Odigie Oyegun
National Secretary Alhaji Mai Mala Buni
Founded February 6, 2013; 4 years ago (2013-02-06)
Merger of ACN, CPC, ANPP
Headquarters 40 Blantyre Street, off Adetokunbo Ademola Street, Wuse II, Abuja, FCT
Ideology Big tent
Federalism
Social conservatism
Political position Economic: Centre-left
Social: Right-wing
International affiliation Socialist International (consultative)
Colours              Green, white, blue
     Red (costumary)
Seats in the House
225 / 360
Seats in the Senate
60 / 109
Governorships
22 / 36
Website

The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6th of February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections. APC candidate Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential election by almost 2.6 million votes. Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat on 31 March. This was the first time in Nigeria's political history that an opposition political party unseated a governing party in a general election and one in which power transferred peacefully from one political party to another. In addition, the APC won the majority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 2015 elections, though it fell shy of winning a super-majority to override the ability of the opposition People's Democratic Party to block legislation.

Formed in February 2013, the party is the result of an alliance of Nigeria's three biggest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) – and a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) – merged to take on the People's Democratic Party. The resolution was signed by Tom Ikimi, the who represented the ACN; Senator Annie Okonkwo on behalf of the APGA; former governor of Kano State, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, the Chairman of ANPP's Merger Committee; and Garba Shehu, the Chairman of CPC's Merger Committee. Ironically, less than 2 years before the party's historic victory in the 2015 elections, Messrs Annie Okonkwo, Tom Ikimi and Ibrahim Shekarau resigned from the party and joined the PDP.


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