Pioneer Interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Bisi Akande has picked holes in the ongoing membership registration exercise by the ruling party.
Akande, a political associate of the National Leader of the APC Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, spoke on Wednesday after he was registered by the party delegation led by Senator Lawan Shuaibu at his Ward 04, Unit 012, Isedo1, Ila-Orangun, Osun State.
He also described the caretaker committee overseeing the affairs of the party, led by Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni, as an abnormality under a democracy.
Akande said “Please, permit me to make two observations. The first is that in normal circumstances, a caretaker executive committee for a political party is an abnormality. If not carefully controlled and expeditiously managed, most aberrant authorities end up in contempt and disgrace.
“For this reason, I want to urge the present APC caretaker committee to resist all temptations of sit-tight syndromes that usually characterise most handpicked authorities in most underdeveloped countries of the world,” he said.
“The second is to say that no population census is repeated within less than a decade and that voters are not re-registered at every election.
“Within this context, I see the present APC membership registration within less than a decade after the original register as an indefensible aberration leading to certain ugly perceptions.
“The first major perception is that APC, already having a well-computerised register for an average of 100 leaders of similar ideological orientation per each of the more than 120,000 polling units across Nigeria, might be lacking comprehension and matrix of the modern-day technology.
“The second major perception is that APC leadership might be wasteful and unappreciative of the proper use of money in the kind of scanty economy in which Nigeria now finds itself.
“These seeming ugly perceptions put into abeyance the applause of the two national election successes that the original APC register enjoyed since its completion on 15th February 2014 and the over N1 billion, of 2014’s value, that the original register cost when APC had no money of its own.”
