The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday started its nationwide
membership registration in polling units across the country.
However, the exercise started on a shaky note as registration materials
arrived in most of the centres late.
Investigations however revealed that while there were individuals
willing to register, they could not do so because a number of the polling units
are located in public schools.
For instance, some polling units located in Wuse, Kubwa and Garki, Abuja
could not be used because schools were in session.
One of those affected, Mallam Abdulkadir Abubakar, said, “As you know,
there is a polling unit at the primary school in Phase III, here in Kubwa. I was
there and there was no sign anything would happen because children were in
school.”
He explained that he and others who were faced with a similar challenge
would take the matter up with the party’s interim officials at the ward level.
A similar scenario played out at the Government Secondary School located
in Area 10.
A would-be APC member, Mr. Pius Osareimen, said he could not register
because he neither saw any party official nor found a registration unit since
the school which served as a polling unit was in session.
When contacted, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed said, “Registration is going on very fine; there may be
some states where some minor hitches may have been noticed.
“However, overall the exercise is going on well. Remember, it is just
the first day.”
In Adamawa State, Governor Murtala Nyako registered at Hammanyero ‘A’
polling unit in Mbilla Ward of Mayo Belwa Local Government at 11.30am on
Wednesday.
This was contained in a statement signed by the Director of Press and
Public Affairs to the governor, Ahmad Sajo, which was sent via electronic mail
to newsmen.
Speaking shortly after the exercise, Nyako said with his registration as
a card-carrying member of the APC, “all talks of his return to the PDP have
been effectively foreclosed.”
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