Emerhor Impressed with Delta APC Membership Registration Exercise

• Akwa Ibom chapter of Buhari support group for launch Thursday

Omon-Julius Onabu in Asaba

Delta State leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has expressed satisfaction with the level of turnout for the ongoing state membership registration as the exercise entered the second and final week.

Emerhor described as “heart-warming and encouraging” progress report from respective chairmen of the party in the 25 local government areas of the state, saying he was optimistic that the party’s state membership register would have so enlarged at the end of the registration that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would be truly threatened by the APC.

“As we enter Week Two of the registration exercise, I am pretty sure that the number will be tripped such that APC Delta can boldly say the end of PDP has come”, Emerhor was quoted by his Director of Political Communication, Dr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, as saying.

Oghenesivbe further told THISDAY that the state party gubernatorial candidate in the 2015 election also “commended the registration officers across the state for commitment and dedication to duty”.

He assured Delta State party faithful that the party’s leadership was working hard to ensure that the state chapter of the APC does not lag behind in state and national politics.

The state party leadership was poised “to attract dividends of democracy to the people as can be seen in the recent NDDC (Niger Delta Development Commission) board appointments”, he said.

While calling on citizens within and outside the state to take advantage of the ongoing registration of members, Emerhor stressed that the determination of the state APC leadership to climb to serious electoral reckoning in 2019 was on course.

Meanwhile, the Akwa Ibom State chapter of the political pressure group, Grassroots Mobilizers for Buhari (GMB), is expected to be formally inaugurated by the director-general of the group, Alhaji Umar Farouk Mohammed, on Thursday July 28, 2016.

A statement released by GMB South-South Media Director, Dr Fred Latimore Oghenesivbe, said that “the National Coordinator, Olorogun Igho Osiebe is currently in Akwa Ibom to finalize solid arrangements and to ensure that GMB South-South exco members in that political axis are deeply involved in the inauguration of the state Exco.”

The event is expected to attract top APC members in the state as well as national officers of the GMB and South-South geo-political zone, Oghenesivbe said, adding, “Akwa Ibom chapter of the GMB is fully engaged in vocational training of youths and fresh graduates in conjunction with well established technical and professional organizations, corporate bodies and vocational institutions.”