By David Uka
The State Caretaker Committee Chairman of the People's Democratic Party PDP, Ebonyi State, Elder Fred Udeogu has revealed that the Party had registered over Eight hundred thousand members (800,000) in the State.
Udeogu who stated this in Abakaliki while briefing journalists on the Party's LG Congress in the state said the online membership registration would soon hit over one million persons in the State.
Udeogu who maintained that Ebonyi State still remained PDP state, stressed that 95 percent of appointees in Umahi's present APC government in the state were still PDP members.
"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 whole 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.
"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 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".
Udeogu emphasized: "And 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, thinking the grass was greener, went and they saw that it was not.
"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".
On the Party local government Congress
Elder Udeogu, assured that the exercise would be a hitch-free one as the party has put on necessary measures to counter any hitches.
"God has been on our side since we came on board. We expect hitches and that is why we make arrangement to counter the hitches but in this case, the hitches are already being taking care of."
"We are expecting that there will be problem in one local government where the leaders could not agree and that is Izzi local government. but along the line before I could step out, they called and said they are prepared for the congress, that they have resolved the issue. So, I was so happy about that, outside that, we don’t have problem in any other place".
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