The Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly (NASS), has urged the Membership Registration Committee of the party in Delta State to register everyone interested in joining the party, aggrieved members of other parties, especially the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP).
He gave the charge while revalidating his APC membership on Tuesday at his polling unit at Orogun, his country home, in Ughelli north local government area of the state.
According to him, the electoral success of the party in 2023 could only be guaranteed if unhindered APC membership registration is allowed at the party unit level, where, he said, elections are won and lost, in the state.
Omo-Agege, who arrived his hometown at about 1:00pm with Delta APC chairman, Prophet Jone-Ode Erue and other party dignitaries amid funfare with strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols, reminded party faithful of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment in expanding the scope and strength of the party.
The south- south APC leader who is representing Delta Central Senatorial district in the Upper Legislative chamber of the National Assembly, said that the reliableness of the APC leadership and its members is already sending jitters to the spines of the PDP in the state.
“We have a saying that the end of one election is the beginning of another. People are talking about 2023 as if it’s far, it’s tomorrow and everything starts with registration.
“You have to register with this party, to be members of this party, to take sense of ownership of the party. When the party is your own, you can fight for the party with pride.
“The national leader, President Muhammadu Buhari, has determined that we need to grow this party. We need to enhance our coast and we need to grow it from the bottom, up.
“From the bottom level means from the unit level, LGA to the state then the national. When you hear all politics is local, means that all the politics and is here in our unit.”
He added that the commitment of President Buhari to build the party bottom-up is also his commitment and scope, urging interested members of other political parties to register in every polling unit which, he said, would curtail rigging in future polls.
“You are the owners of the party. It is because of you that PDP’s having sleepless nights today, not because of Omo-Agege. It is because of the calibre of leadership. The leadership and the membership of APC in Delta State across the three Senatorial District.
“The leadership from Abuja had invited me to Asaba, issued me a card, but they decided that they would rather travel all the way to my unit to register me here. So that every member of my unit will also see that this is where everything starts and everything ends; because elections are won and lost. It all starts here.
“This exercise is going to be different. We give you our commitment that we are going to ensure that anybody and everybody who is interested in joining APC would be allowed to register that is my commitment. Nobody would be deprived of registration because we want to expand our coast”, he added.
