A’Ibom PDP tightens support base in 368 wards

From Isaac Job, Uyo

Akwa Ibom State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has held meetings across the 368 wards to consolidate support base for the party .

The party also said it has used the ward meeting to assess gains from the A-R-I-S-E Agenda of Pastor Umo Eno in the last nine months in the state.

Last week, the National Secretariat  of the party had directed that wards meeting should be held in all the wards to select members of the caretaker committee to lead the party in the next three months as the tenure of the present party officers has expired.

Speaking  in Uyo, yesterday, the PDP’s Publicity Secretary, Borono Bassey, said the ward meetings deliberated on issues of party affair at the grassroots, seeking more ways to further deepen the roots of the party in all electoral wards in the state.

Borono noted that leaders and government appointees of the party at grassroots took time to brief the people on the policies, intervention, programmes and early gains of the PDP administration in the state as led by Governor Eno

He said Eno held the meeting in his ward at Ibiakpan-Obotim Ward 2, Nsit Ubium Local Government Area and explained the purpose of the ward meetings was to afford the leadership the opportunity to receive the mass of defectors who have returned to the party lately.

He said Eno told the people the meeting was also aimed to reinforce the party’s support base to confirm that Akwa Ibom is proudly PDP as the people have been better off with successive governments in the state, led by the party.

“It has been a good outing. We intend to continue to build up the party, to continue to work for our state and to continue to support our president at the centre.

“We have finished elections and people want to come back. I believe they have seen that the government is responsible and has capacity, so they are coming back out of their own volition, without being pushed.

“As a good father and a responsible party, we have to open our door, because Akwa Ibom is a PDP state and from time it has always been. So, we need to build up our membership, continue to show capacity and strength in developing our state,” he said.