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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
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