August 29, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) says it is introducing an electronic registration of its members to ascertain their actual number.
The exercise is also aimed at knowing the quality as well as the variety of data of its membership nationwide.
The National Chairman of the party, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, disclosed this when he received members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Kano State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in his office in Abuja on Thursday.
“We are introducing electronic registration of our members,not only to know the actual numbers but also to know the quality of the data and the variety of the data.
“You will know precisely the age groups of members of your party, because if you want to hit a particular age group you will be able to address it depending on your need assessment of that age group.
“Sometimes when we operate in an analogue position we can hardly know the number of our membership.
“You know, there are issues of sex, age, profession, educational level and so on. So, it will give us data that will help us while campaigning, we will know how to hit our targets.
“Also at the same time, while in government it will help us also to see what promises that we have made to a particular age group or particular sex group to be able to guide governance in order to implement what we promised to the people”, Ganduje said.
He also said that the party had observed the high level of unemployment in the country, especially among youth, which the national chairman said, informed the party’s decision to organise a national conference to that effect.
“And we will soon know how we can modernise or reform our national curriculum, even including University curriculum so that the graduates we will produce will be employable graduates, not unemployable graduates like we are having now”, Dr Ganduje added.
Abdullahi Yusuf is a seasoned journalist, communicator and was previously the Deputy Editor-In-Chief and Zonal Manager, News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, Jos, where he retired on December 15, 2021
