Sulaiman Argungu urges APC state chairmen to boost digital registration after poor turnout in many states
Sulaiman Argungu has raised serious concern over the low participation in the All Progressives Congress digital membership registration, urging state chairmen to take full responsibility for improving turnout across their senatorial districts.
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The National Organising Secretary spoke in Abuja at the APC e membership registration train the trainers workshop for state and FCT chairmen.
Argungu revealed that while a few states had shown encouraging progress, many others had barely begun the process. He noted that some states had recorded no genuine activity, aside from a handful of representatives sent from their senatorial districts.
He said the national secretariat had been monitoring the data daily to track how many people were signing up at each state office. His comments underscored a growing frustration within the party’s leadership over the slow start to a project seen as vital to organisational reform.
Delta State currently leads the registration with 296508 members. In sharp contrast, Edo and Cross River have recorded nine each, Nasarawa and the FCT five, Ogun 292, Osun eight, Imo three, Enugu none and Oyo 93. Argungu insisted that only members with valid INEC voter cards should be registered so they can vote and be voted for in party affairs.
He explained that the workshop was created to deepen understanding of the new digital system which aims to clean up the party’s membership records and replace unreliable paper based registers.
According to him, over five million members have already been validated, which he said reflects the party’s renewed commitment to integrity under President Bola Tinubu and National Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda.
Argungu noted that in previous years the party had relied on inconsistent and inflated figures that did not match the official membership register. The new system, he said, represents a decisive shift toward modernisation, inclusivity and organisational excellence.
The digital registration initiative followed earlier acknowledgements by the APC National Secretary Senator Ajibola Basiru, who had dismissed the party’s old claim of 45 million members as a fabrication.
Basiru said the 2023 election exposed the discrepancy when the APC presidential candidate polled fewer than ten million votes despite the supposed record membership.
He stressed that the new digital and biometric based platform, which links members to their National Identification Numbers, was necessary to restore credibility.
Former APC National Chairman Dr Abdullahi Ganduje had also backed the reform, explaining that biometric data would guide decision making, planning and candidate verification.
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As the registration drive moves into full state level implementation, party leaders hope the reform will strengthen internal structures and give the APC a more credible footing ahead of the 2027 general elections.
