The Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Lai Mohammed,
said the membership registration would last for about five days and would be
held at over 120, 000 polling units across the country.
He said, “The membership registration starts on January 28 and it
will run for about five days. It will be happening simultaneously across the
nation and will be done at the level of the polling units. You know the maximum
number of votes at a polling unit is 500. But the people that vote are not all
party members. Therefore, if a political party registers up to 100 or 200
people at a polling unit; it is remarkable. There are over 120, 000 polling
units in the country. From what we have, we expect to register at least 12
million members.”
Mohammed said the party decided to do the registration at the polling
units to reduce cost of transportation and other logistics.
He added that the party had made provisions for all the materials needed
for the registration at the polling units.
APC had set up committees to handle the registration of its members in
each state of the federation.
Members of the committee were drawn from the national secretariat, the
defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, the Congress for Progressive Change and the
All Nigeria Peoples Party in each state as well as the governors, who are
members of the party.
The APC National Secretariat would name two members, the chairmen of the
defunct ACN, ANPP and CPC as well as state governors belonging to the party, as
part of the committee.
It was also gathered that the caretaker committees would be inaugurated
two weeks before the commencement of the registration.
After it was registered by the Independent National Electoral
Commission, last year, APC had commenced a membership drive across the country,
which resulted, partly, in the defection of some members of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party to it.
The membership registration is expected to put figures to the strength
of the new party in the six geopolitical zones of the country.
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