Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has
called on the founding fathers of the Peoples Democratic Party to come
together to save the party from crises capable of leading to avoidable
implosion.
In a statement by his Media Office in
Abuja on Monday, Atiku said he was particularly disturbed by the
worsening polarisation of the party and internal divisions which might
weaken the party structures at the state and deepen the crisis between
the governors and the President.
The former Vice President explained that
as one of the founding fathers of the party, he had a duty to call on
other founding members to rise to the occasion and caution the “forces
that are bent on tearing the party apart and providing the ammunition
for self destruction.”
He lamented the failure of the National
Executive Council to meet in line with the provisions of the party’s
constitution and the inability of the “Board of Trustees to rise to the
occasion of arresting this ugly development.”
According to him, the bitter internal
divisions within the PDP, has led to crisis in the party leadership in
some states, division in the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and the
suspension of a sitting Governor over disagreements on principle that
could have been avoided if the founders of the party had added their
voices of caution and moderation.
With the challenges of providing good
governance and the bid for re-election in 2015, Atiku noted that the PDP
could not afford the current acrimony as it was undermining democratic
structures at all levels.
Meanwhile, following controversies
trailing the NGF chairmanship election, Majority Leader in the Edo State
House of Assembly, Phillip Shaibu, has urged the Presidency to focus on
tackling the myriads of problem threatening the nation’s
developmental, instead of meddle in who heads the forum.
Despite the presidency distancing itself
from the crisis rocking the NGF, Shaibu in an interaction view with
journalists, in Benin on Monday, urged Jonah Jang of Plateau State, to
“be magnanimous in defeat” and accept the outcome of the election.
“Nigerian has grown beyond do or die politics,” he said.
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founding fathers or grandfathers, PDP is gone. nothing reign forever.
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