On Thursday, August 23, Hyacinth Enuha, a member of the All Progressive Party in Delta state, disclosed that the party is embarking on registration of new members and re-validation of old members across the country because of the coming primaries.

He said the membership registration and revalidation exercise will be used for conducting direct primaries where aspirants in the party would emerge for the 2019 election.



He said: “After the registration, permanent membership cards will be issued which will be the voting cards for the direct primaries. There will be no more issues of locking delegates in hotel rooms, feed them for three days and induce them with lots of money to vote for a particular person.

“It will be difficult to bribe the entire members of the party at any level. So an aspirant does not need to have so much millions to emerge as candidate. What needs to be done is for the aspirants to mobilise the grassroots and convince them to vote for him or her.

“The direct primary is a popularity contest because the people know who they want.”

It was earlier reported that the All Progressive Congresss can now accomodate more members, as the National Working Committee of the party requested an immediate recommencement of the Nationwide Membership Registration across all 36 States.

According to the party, The decision, was taken in response to calls received from members of the public who where interested in becoming part the party to support the change agenda of the Buhari-led administration.

Source: jornalng.com

https://journalng.com/2018/08/23/apcs-purpose-conducting-fresh-membership-registration-chieftain/

It will be difficult to bribe the entire members, but they will still be bribed.