GNU: ANPP, PPA seek fresh deal - Members to get board appointments - Nigerian Tribune

Taiwo Adisa, Abuja - 09.12.2007

The two component political parties participating in the Government of National Unity (GNU) put together by President Umaru Yar’Adua, the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) are seeking a better deal in the coalition government.

Sources in the presidency told the Sunday Tribune that recent meetings between leaders of the ANPP and the PPA and President Umaru Yar’Adua had focused on the discontent within the two parties over the way they have been treated so far by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

The Yar’Adua government had invited the two political parties which won a number of states as well as seats at the National Assembly to participate in a coalition government to enhance reconciliation in the polity. Full Story

Thereafter, the PDP government allocated two ministerial slots to ANPP and one to the PPA. It also allotted two ambassadorial slots to the ANPP and gave none to the PPA.

But discontent within the ANPP particularly was said to have forced the party’s National chairman, Chief Edwin Ume-Ezeoke to meet with President Yar’Adua two weeks ago, while the Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the PPA, Chief Orji Kalu also met with the President last week. Full Story