By using this site, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Accept
Tribune OnlineTribune OnlineTribune Online
  • Home
  • News
  • Columns
  • Editorial
  • VIDEOS
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Opinions
  • SPORTING TRIBUNE
Reading: Edo APC chairman inaugurates membership mobilization committee
Share
Notification Show More
Font ResizerAa
Tribune OnlineTribune Online
Font ResizerAa
  • Home
  • News
  • Columns
  • Editorial
  • VIDEOS
  • Entertainment
  • Politics
  • Health
  • Opinions
  • SPORTING TRIBUNE
  • About Us
  • Contact us
  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy
  • Advertise
Have an existing account? Sign In
Follow US
© 2025 African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc.. All Rights Reserved.
Latest News

Edo APC chairman inaugurates membership mobilization committee

David Olagunju
January 4, 2020
Share
APC
SHARE

UNPERTURBED by the rumbling in the Edo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the party during the weekend in Benin inaugurated a 39 member mobilisation committee for membership drive.

Chaired by the former Majority Leader of the Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, the state party chairman, Mr Anselm Ojezua charged the committee to embark on serious membership drive.

Few months to the governorship primary and the election proper which comes up later in the year, the party is presently enmeshed in crisis as Col. David Imuse is equally laying claim to the chairmanship of the party in the state.

At the inauguration, Ojezua reeled out the terms of reference to the committee which among others included serious membership drive, to identify and interact with notable persons across the state who have shown genuine interest in joining the party.

He debunked insinuation that the party is being run like a secret cult, noting that “our party is not a secret society” and “everything we do is transparent and therefore this process is also transparent.”

The chairman also tasked the 39-member committee to develop a program of action to receive the comers at all levels of engagements from the ward to the state level.

He said: “Today, we are inaugurating one of the most important committees any political party would have because it has to do with mobilization which is synonymous with membership drive. And in doing this, we have carefully and in consultation with the leadership of the party identified people; men and women that we know have the capacity, the goodwill to get the job done. And that is why the responsibilities has fallen on those we have just called.

“You know as well as I do that quite a number of people have indicated interest to join our party; some for good and some for not so good.

ALSO READ: External forces may be sponsoring attacks on Kogi people ― Govt

“Your work is to also use your means to do some level of screening and therefore make some recommendations that will be for the good of our party.

“We have set up this committee in the open and they will work from bottom-up because as they say politics is local.

“We do not accept that membership drive for Edo people to join a party in Edo should be done outside Edo by people of questionable status within our party and that is the reason why we say this one is different.”

The chairman noted that “there is a clear difference between membership drive and an invitation of a mercenary group to come and do a hostile take over of the party as if this structure that we have put in place is not a superstructure.”

He, however, said that by the time the commit successfully finishes its assignment, Nigerians will know APC in Edo is as strong as can ever be.

He added that “no sinister group, no matter how highly placed, can change the situation as far as Edo state is concerned.”

Iduoriyekemwen promised that the committee will ensure that people of good character who will lead the party to the next level are brought to the party.


WATCH TOP VIDEOS FROM NIGERIAN TRIBUNE TV

  • Back to School, Back to Business A Fresh Start

  • Relationship Hangout: Public vs Private Proposals – Which Truly Wins in Love?

  • “No” Is a Complete Sentence: Why You Should Stop Feeling Guilty

  • Relationship Hangout: Friendship Talk 2025 – How to Be a Good Friend & Big Questions on Friendship

  • Police Overpower Armed Robbers in Ibadan After Fierce Struggle


    Get real-time news updates from Tribune Online! Follow us on WhatsApp for breaking news, exclusive stories and interviews, and much more.
    Join our WhatsApp Channel now


Share This Article
Facebook Email Print
Previous Article Kogi, robbery, Kogi presents 2021 budget External forces may be sponsoring attacks on Kogi people ― Govt
Next Article COVID-19: Fayemi relaxes lockdown in Ekiti Labour writes Fayemi, protests mass sack of workers in Ekiti

Frontpage Today

Subscribe to e-Paper

E-Vending, e paper, pdf, e-paper, Tribune
WOMEN

Xquisite
Xquisite Food
Xquisite Style
Wondrous World of Women

MORE

Business Coach
Education
Event Digest
Crime & Court
Do It Yourself
Ecoscope
Property & Environment
Energy
Maritime
Aviation
Brands & Marketing
Agriculture
Info Tech
Labour
Leadership & Management
Achievers
Arewa Live
Arts & Culture
Arts & Reviews
Campus Beat
Politics
Health News
MORE

Mum & Child
Natural Health
Sexuality & Health
Special Report
Sports
Tourism
Travelpulse & MICE
Tribune Business
Weekend Lagos
Youth Speak
Book Review
Thursday Tales
EDITORIAL

Editorial
Opinion
Letters
News Extra

BUSINESS

Capital Market
Money Market
Economy

ENTERTAINMENT

Friday Treat
Entertainment
Razzmattaz

REGIONS

South West
Niger Delta
Arewa

RELIGION

Tribune Church
Church News
Muslim Sermon
Eye of Islam
Islamic News

COLUMNS

Anike's Diary
Aplomb
Ask The Doctor
Autoclinic With The Mechanic
Awo's Thought
Borderless
Crucial Moment
Empowered For Life
Festus Adebayo's Flickers
Financewise
Gibbers
Intimacy
Language & Style
Leaders' Forum
Leadership & Management
Lynx Eye
Monday Lines
Mum & Child
Natural Health
Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi
On The Lord's Day
PENtagon
Political Panorama
Veritatem With Obadiah Mailafia
Voice of Courage
Whatsapp Conversation
You and Eye
Your Life Counts

© 2025 African Newspapers of Nigeria Plc. All Rights Reserved.
Welcome Back!

Sign in to your account

Username or Email Address
Password

Lost your password?