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National chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Chief Victor Umeh, on Tuesday said the party is not an appendage of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Umeh spoke in a lecture titled Towards a successful 2015 election: The role of the opposition, which he delivered to mark the inauguration of the executive committee of the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, in Enugu.

He made the assertion in apparent response to the South East zonal spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who had, earlier in a keynote speech at the event, described APGA as an appendage of the PDP.

APGA is a distinct political party which cannot be an appendage of another political party, Umeh said.

However, he noted that the fact that APGA was not in power at the federal level does not mean that the party must oppose the Federal Government.

According to him, The term opposition is misleading in Nigeria we assume that once you are not in government you must be opposing government.

You must not oppose government all the time if you are not in government.

In developed countries (opposition parties) means those who are not in government but are interested in government.

Umeh accused the APC of engaging in blind opposition.

He also offered an insight into APGAs refusal to join merge with the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria and All Nigeria Peoples Party to form the APC.

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