2019 Polls: Enugu APC begins re-registration for its members

AHEAD of the 2019 general polls, the Enugu State  chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC),has begun re-registration drive with a with a view to strengthening the party in the state.

Briefing newsmen reporters at the end of its stakeholders meeting, with officials of the party’s National committee on the ongoing members re-registration exercise  held at the state secretariat Enugu, the state chairman, Dr. Ben Nwoye, said PDP is now “dead and buried” in the region.

He noted that with the influx of array of political bigwigs that had continued to dump the PDP for the APC in the three senatorial districts of the state, “it is now obvious and clear that it is all over for the PDP”

“It is now obvious and clear that nothing will stop the APC from taking over Enugu from the PDP in 2019” Nwoye boasted.

According to him, all the notable politicians and grass root mobilizers that made PDP tick in the state in the past, such as Senator Jim Nwobodo, and ex- senate president, Ken Nnamani, from Enugu East district have all left PDP for APC.

“Same has happened in Enugu west and North senatorial zones, where the likes of veteran politician, Gbazuagu Nweke Gbazuagu, fondly called (GNG); immediate past Speaker of Enugu state House of Assembly, Eugene Odoh; former member federal House of Representatives, Uchenna Ekwe; wife of ex- governor and former National chairman of the PDP, Mrs Dorothy Nwodo; amongst others have pitched tent with the ruling APC.

Dr. Nwoye, who was joined in the media briefing by chairman of the national committee on the re-registration, Rev. John Ibeabuchi, and other principal officers of the party in the state, reiterated his earlier position that the exercise which began on saturday,21st, January 2017,was opened to all progressives and true democrats in the state.

He disclosed that the erstwhile Senate president, Chief Ken Nnamani, will be officially registered into the party on Sunday 22nd, January, at his Amechi political ward in Enugu south council Area of the state.

Rev. Ibeabuchi, in his remarks, had explained that the re-registration exercise which is expected to last one week is aimed at enabling the APC ascertain the capacity of its membership, just as he corroborated Dr. Nwoye’s statement that the exercise was opened to all and sundry.

The Enugu APC state Chairman therefore, enjoined the people of the state and south- eastern Nigeria in general, to use the opportunity offered by the re-registration exercise which is opened to both old and new members to embrace the party for the political interest and betterment of the Igbo race.