Ahead of the governorship election in Edo state later this year, the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday inaugurated a mobilisation committee for the membership drive.
The 39-member committee is chaired by a former member of the state House of Assembly, Hon. Matthew Iduoriyekemwen.
The state chairman of the party, Barr. Anselm Ojezua, who inaugurated the committee at the party secretariat, charged the committee to embark on a serious membership drive.
He named terms of reference for the committee to include “serious membership drive, to identify and interact with notable persons across the state who has shown genuine interest to join our party, and to develop a program of action to receive them at all levels of engagements from the ward to the state level.”
Ojezua 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 a 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 have fallen on those we have just called.
“You are expected to work closely with the party leadership at the state, local government and ward levels. They will be the ones to partner with you and guide you in the course of your work.
“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.
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.
“Our party is not a secret society, everything we do is transparent and therefore this process is also transparent.
We have set up this committ