APC begins membership registration

The registration of All Progressives Congress (APC) members begins on Wednesday in 120,000 centres nationwide.

APC Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the party is targeting 15 million members across the six geo-political zones.

He said: “It will be a continuous exercise. We are targeting 15 million members. We have printed about 15 million forms for members at polling booths and they are to fix two passport photographs to the forms. The party is preparing to have a data bank.”

Mohammed, who spoke with reporters at the weekend in Lagos, said a five-member National Registration, Data Processing and Collation Committee had been raised to coordinate the exercise, adding that similar mobilisation committees had been set up at the state, local government and ward levels.

He said the ward congress will hold on March 22, local government congress on March 29 and national congress on April 26.

Mohammed said: “We are preparing for the 2014 and 2015 elections. After the ward, local government and state congresses, we will hold our national convention.”

On the proposed national dialogue, he said: “It is diversionary. Our position on the national conference has been vindicated. We have said that the convener is insincere. He opposed it, but turned around to initiate it. It is President Goodluck Jonathan’s conference. He has the highest number of nominees there.”

Mohammed warned against repression and chided Senate President David Mark for not reading the letter of the defecting senators on the floor of the Senate, saying his refusal was suspect.

He added: “More senators will defect as time goes on.”

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