PDP
e-registration: ‘We’ve registered over 750,000 members – Ebonyi PDP
[From CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki’
Caretaker Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ebonyi State, Chief Fred Udeogu, Tuesday, disclosed that the party has registered more than 750,000 persons in its ongoing electronic registration in the State.
Udeogu who spoke to Journalists in his office on the sideline of the party’s the Local Government Congress held across the State, said the party was doing real registration unlike the ruling All progressives Congress that embarked on fake and unverifiable membership registration.
The PDP boss said the party was targeting over two million members in the ongoing registration in the State, even as he boasted that Ebonyi State was 100 percent PDP.
He dispelled the insinuations in some quarters that the PDP was rejecting people that wished to join, saying, the PDP is ready to welcome people from other political parties who wish to join the party.
Udeogu said: “There is no sincere politician that will say, I am closing doors for people coming in, no. As far as the business of politics is concerned, you are always at the point of expansion and the elasticity is always there. You continue to expand for people to be coming in.
“So, what you heard may not be true, because we cannot stop people from coming into our party but we are still going ahead because there are people who are founding members of our party and those are people that have refused to leave. So, we have not foreclosed avenue for people to come in and we will not do.
“Then, when you talk of APC, we don’t know who is APC and who is not APC because Ebonyi is PDP. People who thought it was better to go the other way saw different thing there and all of them came back. And we gave directive to our people at their different wards that they should accommodate them. we didn’t do what APC did when they were registering, nobody was registering when they were registering , people were not willing to register with them.
“As at last time we got information from our ICT team, we have registered about 750,000 persons. So, very soon we will be getting to a million. We are registering individuals who wants to be part of PDP, that is what we are doing and we are doing it in the who federation. We are always willing to expand, like I said, people who were in APC, declared for PDP and we gave them the latitude to participate in the entire process (congresses). If you are qualified to win any election, we will accommodate you and we did that and it was perfectly done and we are happy about it. Ebonyi is PDP and nobody can change it.”
