By Folorunso Alagbede,Abuja
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday disclosed that it’s e-registration exercise will kick off as from the 1st of August.
The party similarly revealed that it will use the exercise as a platform to realize the dreams of its founding fathers by ensuring that it is carried out at the ward level, according to the constitution of the party.
The Chairman of the e-registration committee of the PDP and Governor of Edo Stare, Mr Godwin Obaseki made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja when he swore in coordinators of the e-registration committee at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja.
Obaseki, who performed the exercise in the company of his deputy, Gov. Umaru Fintri of Adamawa state and National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus and other NWC members, said that the exercise is one with a different because it will be geared towards repositioning of the party.
He disclosed that the Central committee has been broken down unit five Sub-committees, saying that the exercise will at the ward despite little intervention from local government, state and zones.
According to him, “The national Committee has been working for the last five weeks to make sure that we cover all grounds. We have broken up into six strategic committees which include: the technicals and systems that will be in charge of the technology, publicity, mobilization, training and logistics, finance, strategy and implementation and we have done a lot of work.
“We expect that we shall roll out the e-registration exercise from the 1st of August, 2021. This exercise is going to be different, it is going to follow what our founding fathers wanted this party to be, it is going to follow the constitution of our party.
“Membership of a party is the basis on which the party exists and membership is obtained only or principally at the ward level.
“So, this exercise is going to be conducted at the various ward levels in your state. But clearly, there will be local government involvement to help you coordinate and there will also be the state involvement and also the zonal. However, the starting point and the end point will be the wards.
“So we shall be obtaining from you information about the ward, the various leadership, the structure, the availability of access so that those agents that will be going round, helping in the registration of members can be able to upload such into the central server in Abuja.
