By Okey Maduforo Awka
As the All Progressives Congress APC nation wide commences it’s e registration of members across the country, the Anambra state chapter of the party is targeting to register over 336, 000 new members into the party.
The above figure is aimed at boosting the number of it’s members ahead of the 2027 Presidential election in the country.
According to the Director General of the South East Governorship Forum Sen Uche Ekwunife who was the convener of the party’s Stakeholders meeting, the e registration is the duty of the ward Chairmen and their executive members in order to ganner enough support for all the candidates of the party come text year’s election.
Ekwunife explained that the essence of the registration is for the party to empower it’s members through identifying the real loyal and committed members of the party
“We are looking at each ward registering at least 1,000 members of the party and if we can do that and through the electoral wards we shall be looking at over 336,000 new members into our party”
“The party wants to empower their members through this e registration and it is important for the party to know the number of their members who are committed members of the party ”
“APC members are desirous of winning election for their party and we cannot do without the ward Chairmen because they ate the custodians of the party down the ladder at the ward level” she said.
Also speaking,the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC in Anambra state, Chief Basil Ejidike stated that politics is a game of numbers adding that without the numbers a party cannot win an election.
We went into the election with almost nothing and that was what caused us the last Gubernatorial candidate.
If we can score up to 100,000 voted during the last election we would do far better in subsequent elections especially the Presidential election that is coming up next year ”
We shall do all we can to ensure that everybody is registered in Anambra state to give us leverage in the National and state Assembly electors as well as Presidential election” he said.
Chairman of Anambra South Chapter of the party Mr Izuchukwu Okeke who spoke on behalf of other zonal Chairmen announced that all the ward Chairmen and their executive members have already been sensitized and mobilized ahead of the e registration adding that they would over shoot the targeted number of new members.
The highlights of the occasion was the presentation of prizes to the three best local government areas with N500,000.00 for first position N300,000.00 for second position and N150,000.00 for the third position.
A breakdown of the performance of the local government areas showed that Njikoka had the highest number of registered voters followed by Awka South and then Onitsha South.
