By Hamilton Nwosa( Head, The New Diplomat Polling, Research & Data desk)
The deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has urged the people of Delta state in particular and the south-south geo-political zone in general to take advantage of the nationwide membership registration exercise to update and revalidate the party’s membership register will start on 25th January 2021 as spelt out by the national leadership of the APC, to register massively as members of the political party.
A statement by Aruviere Martin Egharhevwa, Executive Assistant to the Deputy President of the Senate, noted that “this major, important, and well-planned exercise will afford all who subscribe to the progressive ideals of the APC an opportunity to be duly registered as members without “discrimination or exclusion”.
The statement added: ” As a firm believer in the ideals and vision of the APC, the Deputy President of the Senate, His Excellency, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege hereby encourages our people to register en masse as members of the APC. He trusts that all leaders and stakeholders of the party will work together to make this internal exercise a huge success.
” The overall objective of the membership registration exercise is to grow and strengthen our party from the grassroots. This is not and should not be adversarial at all. To win elections and govern, an organized and responsible party must consciously grow its base. It is, therefore, necessary and important for all our leaders and stakeholders to give unqualified support to this process by mobilizing our people to participate in it. We owe the Membership Registration Committee, and of course our national leadership, this solemn duty. Their success is our collective success.
“All politics is local, they say. In this regard, the DSP specifically tasks and encourages all leaders and major stakeholders of the APC in Delta State and the wider South-South geo-political zone to seize this moment to unite in the best interest of the party and our people. Let us come together; mobilize our people to register as members of our party and strengthen the party thereby. It is the right thing to do.
It would be recalled that the national leadership of the ruling APC had scheduled a nationwide membership registration exercise to update and revalidate the party’s membership register to commence on 25th January 2021.
The overall goal of the exercise is to strengthen the APC and reposition it effectively ahead of 2023 general politics and subsequent general elections nation-wide.
