Latent disquiet in APC over imbalance allocation of national delegates

Some stakeholders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have engaged in latent protest of perceived imbalance in the allocation of national delegates to the various geo-political zones and states in the country. The delegate’s allocation is perceived to be to the advantage of the north, apparently, to the detriment of the south.

Of the 7,800 national delegates, the three zones in the north have 4,414 delegates, and the south 3,333 delegates.

The concerned APC stakeholders express the fear that the imbalance of national delegates allocation will influence the party’s national convention for the election of the presidential candidate. They, therefore, demanded for review of the national delegates slots to the various states and regions, seeking equal representation of north and south. the northwest has the highest figure, followed by the southwest, then the north central, northeast, south-south and southeast.

The zonal distribution of national delegates of the ruling APC are as follows:

Northwest:     1, 924 delegates

Southwest:     1,568 delegates

North Central:  1,278 delegates

Northeast:       1, 212 delegates

South-south      927 delegates

Southeast:       838 delegates

This amount to a total of 7,800 national delegates.

The distribution of the national delegates across the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are as follows:

Kano State 465 delegates

Katsina State 384 delegates

Borno 324 delegates

Osun 308 delegates

Lagos 304

Oyo 292

Jigawa, 266

Niger, 251

Ogun 248

Nasarawa State 245

Abia 154

Adamawa 184

Akwa Ibom 165

Anambra 163

Bauchi 202

Bayelsa 79

Benue 180

Cross River 194

Delta 170

Ebonyi 154

Edo 168

Ekiti 216

Enugu 131

Gombe 134

Imo 236

Kaduna 234

Kebbi 213

Kogi 222

Kwara 195

Ondo 200

Plateau 18

Rivers 151

Sokoto 193

Taraba 146

Yobe 222

Zamfara 169

FCT 53

The stakeholders are demanding for a review and equal representation across the country.