{"id":62001,"date":"2022-03-27T17:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/41-million-apc-members-shehu-sani-connects-buharis-claim-to-ukraine-canada"},"modified":"2022-03-27T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:42:05","slug":"41-million-apc-members-shehu-sani-connects-buharis-claim-to-ukraine-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/41-million-apc-members-shehu-sani-connects-buharis-claim-to-ukraine-canada","title":{"rendered":"41 million APC members: Shehu Sani connects Buhari\u2019s claim to Ukraine, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s claim that the membership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has risen to 41 million members.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari made the claim at the party\u2019s national convention in Abuja, saying the number now puts the ruling party as the largest political party in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the numerical strength puts APC at a level where it can win elections fairly.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari said he was impressed to learn that the membership registration and revalidation exercise of the party recorded such members.<\/p>\n<p>In reaction, Sani, who did not doubt the President\u2019s claim, however, noted that Nigerian citizens in the ruling party are now almost the population of Ukraine and more than Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a claim of 41 million registered members,Nigeria\u2019s ruling party now almost matched up the population of Ukraine Or more than the population of Canada,\u201d Shehu Sani, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the eighth assembly, tweeted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. A former federal lawmaker, Shehu Sani has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s claim that the membership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has risen to 41 million members. Buhari made the claim at the party\u2019s national convention in Abuja, saying the number now puts the ruling party as the largest political party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[7070,1570,2140,97,3130,254,195,4680],"class_list":["post-62001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-41-million-apc-members","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-canada","tag-nigeria","tag-shehu-sani","tag-ukraine"],"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>41 million APC members: Shehu Sani connects Buhari\u2019s claim to Ukraine, Canada - 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