PDM launches online registration of members

BARLEY one month after its registration by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM), has formally commenced online registration of its members.
  This is even as the newly registered political party has thrown its weight behind the proposal for Nigerians in the Diaspora to vote during the 2015 general elections.
  Speaking at the unveiling of the online membership registration yesterday in Abuja, National Chairman of the PDM, Bashir Yusuf, said that the move is in line with the party’s commitment to openness, fairness and a drive to create a level playing ground for all Nigerians of voting age in and outside the country to participate in governance through authentic party membership.
  According to him: “We are trying to give people options to register online so that they don’t have to go back to their wards were they normally go to cast their vote before they are registered.
  The national chairman noted that PDM is the first political party in Nigeria to register its members, adding that the party would commence manual registration of members in all the wards in the country in October.