S’West APC Rolls Out E-Membership Registration

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has launched its electronic membership registration in the South-West to digitize the party’s operations and to further improve its chances ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday launched the ‘Train-the-Trainer’ Workshop for the e-Membership Registration at the State House, Marina.

The APC National Secretary, Senator Basiru Ajibola, led members of the National Working Committee (NWC) to the flag-off ceremony, which was also attended by the Lagos State APC Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, and party secretaries from the region.

Speaking on behalf of the Governor, Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, said the digitisation of APC’s membership system would enable the party to accurately measure its true strength and identify genuine members across wards.

“This is exercise is particularly important and necessary for us to be able to know and identify true members of our party,” Hamzat said.

“Digitising the party’s database would help APC synchronise its activities across the grassroots level and enable us to track the strength of the party at every ward. We can also gauge people’s confidence and feelings about our party from this approach.”

Hamzat emphasised that a data-driven system was one of President Bola Tinubu’s legacies as a former governor and political leader, urging the APC to adopt similar modern approaches in governance and administration.

He added that automating party operations would eliminate inefficiencies in processes such as membership registration, nomination of candidates, and election of officers.

In his remarks, Ajibola, who represented the APC National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, said the exercise was designed to make the APC more organised and credible.

He added that the initiative, backed by reliable IT infrastructure, would be supervised by a high-powered team from the National Working Committee in all six South-West states.

“Our leader, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has shown us that politics is both scientific and engineering. Science and engineering are two aspects of human endeavour that are driven by empirical data. This exercise is deliberately designed to further improve the chance of our party in the coming elections,” Ajibola said.

“Both the hardware and software of our IT infrastructure to conduct this exercise are already in place. We place emphasis on training and a high-powered delegation from the National Working Committee of the party will be at the six centres across the Southwest to supervise the exercise.”

Also speaking, APC Deputy National Organising Secretary, Chidi Duru, noted that the South-West was the last region to undertake the exercise.

He said the capacity-building workshop would ensure that party officials could verify and identify members from anywhere in the country.