Saturday’s non-elective national
convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), will have over 3,000
delegates from across the country in attendance.
It will be the first of such
gathering, since the Supreme Court’s decision to reinstate the National
Caretaker Committee (NCC) led by Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi.
One of the issues on the agenda
at the convention, will be the extension of the NCC’s tenure, to enable it
organize an elective national convention, as well as oversee constitution
ammendment.
The National Publicity Secretary
of the party, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, told a press conference on Friday: “Tomorrow
(Saturday) by the grace of God, it’s going to be a carnival-like atmosphere the
like of which we have never seen before.
“PDP members are coming to Abuja
to celebrate, to tell Nigerians that this party has been reawakened and the
party is poised not only to challenge for power but again, to begin a new era
of good governance come 2019.
“Our members have started arriving from
various states of the federation and we are expecting over 3,000 delegates and
all the foreign missions and international observers have been invited.”
He added: “And we have every
cause to celebrate. God took us out of a major crisis that almost killed the
party.
“The significance of the Supreme
Court judgment is not really appreciated by so many people. If that decision
had been otherwise, we would not have been here today. There may been no PDP at
all as we know it.
“But we give glory to God that
with that judgment, the PDP has been given a new lifeline and we believe that
we will use that opportunity to reposition the party to do better even better
than when we were in government.
“So, we have every cause to
celebrate and this is the convention of every member of this party and even
Nigerians because Nigerians rejoiced with us when we won at the Supreme Court.
“They remember with nostalgia the
good era of PDP when we were in power. They now compare that with the suffering
they are going through now and Nigerians are yearning for a return of PDP
government to power.”
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