Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the major political parties in Katsina State, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are boasting to either retain or reclaim power.
This is as a result of the different parties’ registration of members which the APC said they have achieved 1.8 million while Salisu Majigiri of the PDP similarly, in their ongoing e-registration said they are targeting 2 million members.
Katsina State’s population according to the National Bureau of Statistics in 2016 is put at 7.8 million making it the 4th largest in the country after Kano, Lagos, and Kaduna who top the list.
Since politics and winning elections are based on numbers, political parties have resorted to registering their members to know their strengths numerically.
Both the ruling APC in Katsina State with the recent conclusion of its revalidation exercise and the major opposition PDP’s current e-registration has set machinery in place to ascertain that.
The Katsina State chapter of the PDP Chairman, Salisu Majigiri, said they are optimistic of reclaiming power in the forthcoming 2023 general elections due to the current state of the nation, and particularly, having set a target of 2 million registered members.
Majigiri during the sensitization of the Northwest youths in its ongoing e-registration for members said with the sensitization programme the feat will be achieved.
According to the Chairman, Nigerians are now tired of the current leadership where insecurity is the order of the day, as such, they are willing to join the party, prompting it to go on e-registration for members across the country.
He said the e-registration will be an easy and stress-free exercise to ensure that even those in the remote localities are captured.
The Katsina State PDP Chairman further said the party is optimistic that it will bounce back to power not only in the state but at the federal level, considering the current state of the nation.
