At What Point Did 41 Members Become 10 Million? – Sambo Knocks APC Over Inconsistency

The All Progressives Congress’s (APC) erratic membership numbers have drawn criticism from Sumner Sambo, editor for politics at Arise News.

In an interview on Arise Television’s Morning Show, Sambo reportedly recalled 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 doubts about the party’s prior assertions, arguing that the drop in membership from 41 million to 10 million calls into question their veracity.

In addition, he said that President Bola Tinubu received roughly 8.7 million votes in the 2023 presidential election and inquired as to the whereabouts of the 41 million party members who had previously been declared registered.

Sambo praised the party’s use of technology in its current membership registration procedure despite his criticism, calling it a constructive move.

“We’re now talking about the APC claiming that it has 10 million members,” he remarked. Well, this is amusing. Oddly enough, in March 2022, the incumbent governor of Yobe and the chairman of the caretaker special convention committee informed us that the APC had 41 million registered members.

“So, when did the 41 million registered members grow to 10 million members? Because these were some of the issues we brought up before the general elections in 2023, and the APC was genuinely attempting to manipulate the election’s outcome. What was President Tinubu’s outcome? There were roughly 8.7 million votes for him. The APC assured us in 2022 that there were 41 million registered members, but where were they?

“The APC now claims to have roughly 10 million registered voters, four years after 2022. The national chairman, who stated that the goal of this registration is 20 million party members, is, in my opinion, being conservative. This implies that the APC should apologize to Nigerians for misleading them about their membership size in 2022, which we now know was false. The good news is that APC is using technology to register its members.