APC membership registration, opportunity for youth involvement - Oladunjoye

By: Folorunso Fatai




The Publicity Secretary, Caretaker Committee , of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ogun State, Mr. Tunde Oladunjoye, has described the ongoing membership registration for the party as an opportunity for Nigerian youths to get involved in the administration of the country. 

Mr. Oladunjoye made the declaration while speaking with the news anchor on Galaxy TV news interview on Wednesday,  February 3, 2021. 

He said, “a lot of Nigerians have attained the age of 18 and  we need to open the democratic space for them. Not only have them on Twitter and other social media but to have them as members of the party, the generation that we refer to as the “Sorosoke “ generation to have them as members of the party where they can vote and be voted for. So, this is an opportunity for the youths who have attained the age of 18 to join , formally, the APC and enjoy the rights and privileges of being a member of the party. “

Oladunjoye also dismissed the belief in some quarters that the revalidation of members has been designed to spite some aggrieved members of the party. He explained, “I don’t agree with that and I want to tell you from personal experience and what is really on the card that It is like shooting yourself in the leg or scoring a goal against yourself. If you try to prevent some people from registering because we are talking of membership that will thrive the party, people that will mobilise for the party, people that will campaign for the party.” 

He said that the APC Caretaker Committee Chairman in Ogun State, Mr. Yemi Sanusi, has directed that anybody who comes in to register must be registered; and that any booth or ward where people are prevented from registering, such booth/ward will be cancelled.

Oladunjoye added that politics is local/grassroots and that he aligns with the position of the president,  Muhammadu Buhari, that aspirants for either the Local or State would no longer come from Abuja. He said, “ I want to align with the position of Mr President on this issue. Politics is local, it is grassroots. President Buhari has gone back to Daura to register in his ward, his polling Booth because politics is local, bottom-up. You can’t climb a tree from the top. So, we identify with the position of the President that they should allow the locals, the grassroot people to pick their leaders and not I walk in from Canada.  Let people who have sweated, who had laboured for the party from the grassroots to  be recognised and be rewarded”.

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