2023: State-by-state Breakdown Of APC Delegates In Nigeria
A state-by-state breakdown of All Progressives Congress (APC) delegates in Nigeria was obtained and released by Joe Igbokwe, a chieftain of the ruling party, on Friday, May 20.
As seen in the breakdown, the total number of delegates in all the states is 7810.
The top five states with the highest number of delegates are Kano, Katsina, Borno, Osun, and Lagos.
The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has the lowest number of delegates: 53 in all.
See the breakdown below:
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- Kano: 465 delegates
- Katsina: 384 delegates
- Borno: 324 delegates
- Osun: 308 delegates
- Lagos: 304 delegates
- Oyo: 292 delegates
- Jigawa: 266 delegates
- Niger: 251 delegates
- Ogun: 248 delegates
- Nasarawa: 245 delegates.
- Abia: 154 delegates
- Adamawa: 184 delegates
- Akwa Ibom: 165 delegates
- Anambra: 163 delegates
- Bauchi: 202 delegates
- Bayelsa: 79 delegates
- Benue: 180 delegates
- Cross River: 194 delegates
- Delta: 170 delegates
- Ebonyi: 154 delegates
- Edo: 168 delegates
- Ekiti: 216 delegates
- Enugu: 131 delegates
- Gombe: 134 delegates
- Imo: 236 delegates
- Kaduna: 234 delegates
- Kebbi 213 delegates
- Kogi: 222 delegates
- Kwara: 195 delegates
- Ondo: 200 delegates
- Plateau: 185 delegates
- Rivers: 151 delegates
- Sokoto: 193 delegates
- Taraba: 146 delegates
- Yobe: 222 delegates
- Zamfara: 169 delegates
- FCT: 53 delegates
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2023: We didn’t promise accommodation for APC delegates, says Osinbajo campaign team
In other news, the Osinbajo campaign media team had dismissed some reports suggesting that it promised to provide hotel accommodation for no fewer than 7,000 APC delegates in the presidential primary of the party scheduled for Sunday, May 29.
The clarification was made in a statement sent to Legit.ng on Thursday, May 19.
Part of the statement read:
“We have seen an outlandish news report that a so-called "Osinbajo Campaign Organisation has said that it would provide hotel accommodation for more than 7,000 All Progressives Congress delegates across the country during the party’s presidential primary election.
“Attributing such a claim to Senator Babafemi Ojudu, special adviser to the president, in the Office of the Vice President, the report falsely claimed that "Ojudu announced this to delegates in Minna while wooing them to vote for Osinbajo during the party’s primaries..."
Source: Legit.ng