Ekiti APC begins e-registration, mobilises support for Tinubu

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has commenced its digital membership e-registration exercise as part of efforts to strengthen the party’s structure. 

Speaking during the flag-off of the Train-the-Trainers session in Ado Ekiti, the APC State Chairman, Sola Elesin, said that the e-registration would not only modernise the party’s membership register but also mobilise broader support for President Tinubu’s policies.

He noted that the digital registration was central to rebuilding the party’s support base and ensuring data accuracy for strategic planning.

Elesin noted that the outcome of the last presidential election in Nigeria, propelled the broom party to come up with the programme.

Elesin said, “Prior to the election, we believed we would have 50 million party members who would vote for our president in the election, but the result was released, we had just over 11 million votes for Mr President. This shows that even our party members failed to vote going by the data. 

“Since that time , we have been looking for a way to have accurate data about actual number of the members of the party, that is the essence of continued digital membership process. We believe we will have accurate data for whatever we want to organize in the party and to forge ahead. 

The state coordinator of the APC e-registration, Hon. Gold Adesola Adedayo noted that the programme was designed to shore up the party’s membership.

The former Commissioer for Youths in Ekiti state explained the party decided to do the e-registration to digitalize the initial record of the party members.

Adedayo, who is now a commissioner-designate, said, “It is primarily for digitalizing party membership register. It is to give accountability, transparency and of course to enhance service delivery from our party and when we no know our exact figure, then the dividends of democracy will not be difficult to spread to all. 

“This is the reason behind this program. We all know that we have a register before now, and we have all registered from our units to the wards, the state and even the federal. 

“But the different now ,is that it will be digitalized and we will all have access to it from our phones, in our homes, we can check our membership of the party. It will also give us the opportunity of authenticating the actual numbers of the party members in the state . There will no longer be contradicting figure on membership of the party.

“We are expecting all our members across the 177 wards in the state to register. I know that Ekiti people are for APC and so I am looking at about 70 to 80 percent of the population of Ekiti to turn out in their large number to register as APC card-carrying members”.

The state commissioner for Information, Hon.Taiwo Olatubosun, commended the leadership of the party in the state for deeming it necessary at this point to start the process of revalidation and registration of the membership of APC.

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He said, “The process is very important at this state , particularly for a very proper planning, documentation of all party membership and party membership is increasing by the day across the state.I believe the party at the national level considered it necessary, that it is good to authenticate and property document information about our membership.

“It is also important, because it will really show that the party can be trusted, because it is only APC in this country and specifically in this state that can boast of having records of its membership. The process will equally assist in the mobilization towards the 2026 governorship election and help in providing for any internal programs of the party.We should encourage our people to key into the process”, he added.