By Nelson Utip
The Akwa Ibom State Chapter of The People’s Democratic Party PDP says it hope to register at least six million, nine hundred thousand members in its ongoing membership registration exercise, this was made known by The State Chairman of the party, Right Honourable Aniekan Akpan at the flag off of fresh membership registration and reassessment campaign at the PDP State Secretariat complex, Uyo on yesterday.
Rt. Hon Akpan also addressed an expanded emergency Exco meeting of the Party where he said that the exercise which is geared towards expanding the already robust membership base of the Party is expected to move the membership statistics of the PDP in Akwa Ibom State to about 6.9million active members.
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“Every week, thousands of Akwa Ibom people continue to reach out to members of our party across the different strata, expressing their genuine desire to register as bona fide members of the PDP. Also, everyday, we have people who turn 18 and want to belong our party which is the most preferred Political Party by Akwa Ibomites.
“Therefore this membership registration and reassessment exercise, apart from being a directive of the National Headquarters of our Party that States should organise and float a Periodic membership reassessment exercise, is also our own way of opening our doors to new members, while also reassessing and updating the membership status of our old members.
“So we have distributed a Membership Registers and Cards which will be in Custody of the Ward Chairmen across the 369 Wards in Akwa Ibom State with the Directive that the Ward Chairmen should register new members and reassess and update the membership status of old members at no cost to anyone.
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“His Excellency, the Governor of our State and Leader of the PDP in Akwa Ibom has cautioned that no Chairman should demand a dime from anyone as a condition for registration and reassessment of membership, and I am sure that the Ward Chairmen in their usual manner will heed this directive” Rt. Hon Akpan said while reiterating the call to the remaining members of other Political Parties to use the opportunity offered by this exercise to return the PDP fold.
The Party Chairman was full of praises for Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom State for his impactful leadership and the way he has led the State and the Party in the past one year, he stressed that impressive gains of the Pastor Umo Eno-led administration has given Akwa Ibom and the PDP a lot of mileage across diverse sectors in the state’s development trajectory.
