{"id":45185,"date":"2021-06-16T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=45185"},"modified":"2021-06-16T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T17:21:42","slug":"apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni","title":{"rendered":"APC now largest political party in Africa \u2013 Buni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker\/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday, revealed that the part is now the largest in the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The Yobe State Governor made the revelation on Tuesday at the party\u2019s National Secretariat when the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Chi Tun Chon Hu, paid a visit to the party\u2019s headquarters in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Buni, who was represented by Secretary of the APC Caretaker Committee, Senator John James Akpanudoedehe noted that the recently concluded membership registration and revalidation exercise puts the total number of members at over 40 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC is the ruling party in Nigeria and is the largest political party in Africa going by figures of its just-concluded membership registration. We stand at over 40, million registered members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, therefore, look forward to more robust engagement between our countries and even on political parties basis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the party, between February and April 2021, conducted a membership registration and revalidation exercise across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise was aimed at giving prospective members the chance to be officially registered in the party.<\/p>\n<p>APC divided over tenure extension plot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker\/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on Tuesday, revealed that the part is now the largest in the continent. The Yobe State Governor made the revelation on Tuesday at the party\u2019s National Secretariat when the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria, Chi Tun Chon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":45184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,26],"tags":[1871,1570,2140,34,1654,254],"class_list":["post-45185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-apc","tag-buni","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>APC now largest political party in Africa \u2013 Buni - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker\/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Ma ...\" \/>\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\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"APC now largest political party in Africa \u2013 Buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker\/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Ma ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-16T17:26:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60ca330205441.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1120\" \/>\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\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"APC now largest political party in Africa \u2013 Buni\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-16T17:26:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/img-60ca330205441.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"APC\",\"Buni\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Parties\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/apc-now-largest-political-party-in-africa-buni\",\"name\":\"APC now largest political party in Africa \u2013 Buni - 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