{"id":16965,"date":"2026-01-11T11:48:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16965\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:48:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:48:06","slug":"apc-never-rigged-election-in-nigeria-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16965\/","title":{"rendered":"APC never rigged election in Nigeria \u2014 Lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

All Progressives Congress (APC) flag<\/p>\n

The All Progressives Congress (APC)<\/a> has denied ever rigging elections at any level in the country.\n<\/p>\n

The party, which hailed itself as the grassroots master mobiliser, added that the strategy it often deploys to reach out to the electorate \u201cwhen it really matters, has made it the envy of the opposition.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

The Member representing Ekiti\/Oke Ero\/Irepodun\/Osi federal constituency in the National Assembly, Hon. Raheem Tunji Olawuyi, said at the weekend in Omu Aran: \u201cAPC does not rig to win in elections; the party has only been good at mobilising voters for election victory.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Speaking at the official launch of the APC membership e-registration exercise at Omu Aran Ward I, the federal lawmaker said, \u201cWe are good at mobilising people into our party; we don\u2019t rig elections in APC. We don\u2019t rig elections in APC. We\u2019ve never thought about rigging. My people can testify. I\u2019ve never told them about rigging of elections. I don\u2019t even know how they do it. The only thing that I know is that before an election, I would have prepared myself and asked myself how many votes I\u2019ll get in every polling booth. It\u2019s about mobilisation. By the time your opponents wake up to rig an election, they\u2019ve already lost. It\u2019s very simple.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Speaking on the e-registration exercise, Hon. Olawuyi said the programme was meant to revalidate members of the party, adding that the number of party faithful who vote during elections should tally with membership registration numbers.
\u201cIn the 2023 presidential election<\/a>, which we won, the votes didn\u2019t tally with about 42 million membership registration numbers of our party.<\/p>\n

\u201cThus, as a practical and scientific politician, the president wants to know how many members are in the party. We want to know the original value of our strength, the total number of members in each ward, polling unit, and up to national level. <\/p>\n

\u201cImportantly, there won\u2019t be double registration, as each membership is tied to NIN. The system would discover such discrepancies,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

The legislator then called on APC members in the area to mobilise people into the party to ensure robust and competitive representation in politics and governance in the area and beyond.\n<\/p>\n

Speaking on his popular name, Ajuloopin (seniority has no limitations), Hon. Olawuyi said he inherited the name from his father.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you come from a family with a good name, you would want to add your own value to the name. I\u2019ve benefitted a lot from the name. A lot of people didn\u2019t know me when I came in to participate in politics. But immediately they hear Ajuloopin, they\u2019d say we don\u2019t know you, but we know your father.\u2019 Since then, I\u2019ve been building on the values and integrity of the name,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Also speaking, the Speaker of the Irepodun Local Government Legislative Council, Omu Aran, Rt. Hon. Aliyu Murtala Omoboye, encouraged party members to come out en masse and register in this APC e-registration exercise.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is what will translate into victory come the 2027 general election for the APC. We have a great and bright chance in the coming general elections. We\u2019ve been on this before now. When we mobilise for our party, we mobilise extensively. Definitely, we\u2019re going to win the election come the 2027 general elections,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Progressives Congress (APC) flag The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied ever rigging elections at any level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1931,10858,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-16965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-apc","9":"tag-lawmaker","10":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}