Arise News Politics Editor Sumner Sambo has criticized the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) erratic membership numbers.
According to reports, Sambo recalled in an interview on Arise Television’s Morning Show that the APC leadership had said in March 2022 that the party had 41 million registered members, a statistic that was provided prior to the general elections in 2023.
Sambo expressed doubt about the party’s earlier assertions, arguing that the drop in membership from 41 million to 10 million calls into question their veracity.
He added that in the 2023 presidential election, President Bola Tinubu received roughly 8.7 million votes, and he inquired as to the whereabouts of the 41 million party members who had been previously declared.
Notwithstanding his critique, Sambo praised the party’s use of technology in its current membership registration procedure, calling it a step in the right direction.
“Now we’re talking about the APC claiming that it has 10 million members,” he remarked. Okay, this is amusing. Fascinatingly, the current governor of Yobe and the chairman of the caretaker extraordinary convention committee at the time informed us in March 2022 that the APC had 41 million registered members.
Therefore, when did the 41 million registered members grow to 10 million? Since we brought out some of these issues prior to the general elections in 2023, the APC was genuinely attempting to manipulate the election’s outcome. What was the outcome for President Tinubu? He received almost 8.7 million votes. What happened to the 41 million APC members that the party claimed to have in 2022?
As of right now, four years beyond 2022, the APC claims to have roughly 10 million registered voters. I believe that the national chairman is acting conservatively when he states that the goal of the party’s registration drive is to reach 20 million members. So, the APC should apologize to Nigerians for telling us that they had 41 million members in 2022 when we knew that was untrue. However, the positive development here is that APC is utilizing technology to register its members.
