{"id":193454,"date":"2026-02-04T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:57:04","slug":"2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc","title":{"rendered":"2027: We\u2019re having more youths as members \u2013 APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has boasted that it is witnessing influx of young people into the party than the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>The National Chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, made this revelation on Tuesday when he featured in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today.<\/p>\n<p>According to him: \u201cWe discovered that we have more young people coming to APC than the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we discuss people coming back to the APC, we don\u2019t discuss the governors. We are rather discussing ordinary Nigerians who move to the APC everyday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are doing e-registration. We did some sampling and opinion poll of our members based on illustration and we discovered that we have more young people coming to the APC than even the elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey form about 49% of people who are interested in the APC platform, roughly about 50%, which means about half of our members are between the ages of 18 and 35 years. This means we have a youthful political party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut before now, we didn\u2019t have youthful political party. The data we had before was that within those categories were just about 21% to 23%. So what\u2019s attracting more young people in the APC is what we should ask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has boasted that it is witnessing influx of young people into the party than the elderly. The National Chairman of the party, Prof Nentawe Yilwatda, made this revelation on Tuesday when he featured in an interview on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today. According to him: \u201cWe discovered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":193453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-193454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2027: We\u2019re having more youths as members \u2013 APC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has boasted that it is witnessing influx of young people into the party than ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2027: We\u2019re having more youths as members \u2013 APC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has boasted that it is witnessing influx of young people into the party than ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-04T09:47:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-04T10:57:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770202468.435709.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"411\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"2027: We\u2019re having more youths as members \u2013 APC\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-04T09:47:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-04T10:57:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\"},\"wordCount\":222,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/sm_1770202468.435709.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2027-were-having-more-youths-as-members-apc\",\"name\":\"2027: We\u2019re having more youths as members \u2013 APC - 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