Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the
ruling All Progressives Congress(APC), says with 15.6 million members
nationwide, APC is the largest party in the world.
He said this on Wednesday when he
presented President Muhammadu Buhari with a new party membership card.
Oshiomhole told the president
that the APC under his leadership, took advantage of modern technology to come
up with a new membership data base.
“Today to talk about the size of
our party, the largest party in the world and in Africa, we need to have
evidence that can be verified by a third party or by members,” he said.
“We have taken advantage of
technology to produce what I believed is the best or the first in Nigeria.
“We now have as at last week when
they started printing of membership register, about 15.6 million registered APC
members across the country.”
A fact check by NAN, however,
showed that while APC may have registered 15.6m members, it is not the world’s
largest.
The Chinese Communist Party has
89million registered members, while India’s ruling party, Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) has a membership of 110 million as of 2015.
In Africa, South Africa’s African
National Congress had 769,000 members as of 2015. The PDP membership strength
is unknown.
The APC national chairman added
that the party membership data base was designed to ensure that the membership
status of anyone could easily be verified at the touch of a bottom.
Oshiomhole further added that
with the development, the party had credible and verifiable persons to conduct
direct primaries on the basis of its membership register.
However, he said the party would
not in any way nullify or change the decisions of its national executive
committee (NEC) at its sixth meeting, which allowed for indirect primaries, for
logistics reasons
He said the APC would strive to
give practical expression to its decision as transparently as possible.
This, he added, would ensure that
the APC would not only be the largest, but the smartest, most democratic and
most cohesive party in the country.
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