National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, has said the 2023 general elections exposed the party’s fake membership figure being paraded.

He disclosed this during the flag off of train-the-trainer workshop on e-registration of APC members, in Abuja, on Wednesday.

Recall that the Governor Mai Mala Buni-led APC National Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee had embarked on membership registration/revalidation exercise in 2021, after which it announced that over 40 million party members were registered.

Bashiru said during the 2023 elections, the APC presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is now the President, struggled to scored less than 10 million votes, even though there were claims that the party had 45 million members.

He said, “If we have that membership of 45 million, how come we went to the poll and got votes of less than 10 million? In line with Amilcar Cabral’s doctrine of ‘tell no lies, claim no easy victories’, that has exhumed the lie.

“In exposing that, it is not to ridicule anybody. It is to know that when a child falls, he will look at the front. But when an elder falls, he will look back to see where he made a mistake. We made a mistake because the register of the party was a tool for fighting causes we don’t know. The weaponisation of the party register led to corruption.

“It was on this basis that the National Working Committee (NWC) decided that one of the cardinal programmes would be to have a digitalised and biometric-based registration system that is linked with the National Identification Number (NIN) of all members.

“This is an exercise we must take with all seriousness to ensure we have a register conducted with integrity.”

On his part, the APC National Chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said only those on the e-register would be eligible to contest elections or secure appointments after the exercise.

“This process will not only drive the planning, decision-making and projection process but will serve as basis of reference for any member of our party seeking appointment at any level or desiring to contest an election,” Ganduje said.

StreetFight:
You forgot to talk about the 1.4 million votes and 1.2 million votes that Goatluck Jonathan got in Rivers and Delta states in 2015, where are the votes in 2023? Did more than three quarter of the 2015 voters die before 2023?

Ogun kee una Mama

StreetFight:
You forgot to talk about the 1.4 million votes and 1.2 million votes that Goatluck Jonathan got in Rivers and Delta states in 2015, where are the votes in 2023? Did more than three quarter of the 2015 voters die before 2023?

Ogun kee una Mama

Islie:


https://dailytrust.com/2023-elections-exposed-apcs-fake-membership-figure-national-secretary/?utm_source=beloud.com&utm_medium=beloud.com

StreetFight:
You forgot to talk about the 1.4 million votes and 1.2 million votes that Goatluck Jonathan got in Rivers and Delta states in 2015, where are the votes in 2023? Did more than three quarter of the 2015 voters die before 2023?

Ogun kee una Mama

Allardyce:
They're talking about the APC, and you're referring to the PDP... and even cursing.

That is a dumb trait. Stay on subject, you're not that dull 😒.

Allardyce:
What is the National Secretary talking about?

We have about 2 million registered members in this forum alone; the only difficulty is that the majority of us were unable to vote since our ward chairman did not provide us with the N1,500 transportation allowance.


We have a remarkable 15 million registered members on Twitter who were learning the "On Your Mandate" song from diverse locations.

I don't want to talk about the millions of Facebook members who donated their own money to buy and sew the "Jagaban Asoebi" material.

The National Secretary is ungrateful, and if he is dissatisfied with his position, he should resign. Nonsense.

Barrywilly:
But this man has PhD in law, why is he reasoning like an idiot? Do you think all APC members like Tinubu and the economic failures of the previous government? So if I'm a member of APC, I can't vote for another candidate? Of what benefits have their being in government impact Nigerians? Nonsense

iLoveYouToo:
This is a flawed argument. Party members still have a right to NOT vote a candidate they do not believe in

Allardyce:
What is the National Secretary talking about?

We have about 2 million registered members in this forum alone; the only difficulty is that the majority of us were unable to vote since our ward chairman did not provide us with the N1,500 transportation allowance.


We have a remarkable 15 million registered members on Twitter who were learning the "On Your Mandate" song from diverse locations.

I don't want to talk about the millions of Facebook members who donated their own money to buy and sew the "Jagaban Asoebi" material.

The National Secretary is ungrateful, and if he is dissatisfied with his position, he should resign. Nonsense.

Islie:


https://dailytrust.com/2023-elections-exposed-apcs-fake-membership-figure-national-secretary/?utm_source=beloud.com&utm_medium=beloud.com

Allardyce:
What is the National Secretary talking about?

We have about 2 million registered members in this forum alone; the only difficulty is that the majority of us were unable to vote since our ward chairman did not provide us with the N1,500 transportation allowance.


We have a remarkable 15 million registered members on Twitter who were learning the "On Your Mandate" song from diverse locations.

I don't want to talk about the millions of Facebook members who donated their own money to buy and sew the "Jagaban Asoebi" material.

The National Secretary is ungrateful, and if he is dissatisfied with his position, he should resign. Nonsense.