APC says massive e-registration is intimidating ADC

From Romanus Ugwu, Abuja

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has stated that its massive membership registration in the ongoing electronic registration exercise is intimidating and terrifying the coalition opposition party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The ruling party argued that the overwhelming success of the exercise must have propelled the ADC to make what it described as a nonsensical allegation that civil servants were being pressured to participate in the party’s e-registration.

APC, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, explained that the claim is entirely false and baseless, and is aimed at casting a shadow over the digitisation of the party’s membership register.

“It is a part of ADC’s disinformation campaign that included the fabrication and circulation of a fake ‘APC membership slip’, purporting that a notorious terrorist had registered as a member of APC.

“Inspired by visible gains and impact of the Renewed Hope Agenda, millions of Nigerians have registered and continue to register, voluntarily and enthusiastically, as members of our party, compelling our leadership to yield to popular demand to extend the period of registration from January 31 to February 8, 2026.

“Clearly, the ADC is intimidated by the phenomenal success of our party’s e-registration exercise, for obvious reasons. However, that cannot justify concocting and spewing lies in an attempt to smear the exercise.

“While the ADC continues to fumble and peddle falsehood, our great party remains focused on its onward march as Africa’s standard-bearer of digital and democratic innovation,” the ruling party noted in the statement.