Chief Raymond Dokpesi, the
founder of Daar Communications, has intensified lobbies toward winning the
support of key PDP stakeholders in his ambition to become the party’s national
chairman.
News Agency of Nigeria reports
that Dokpesi, on Friday night, visited Chief Edwin Clark, the Ijaw leader,
former Niger governor, Babangida Aliyu, and former FCT minister Ibrahim Bunu,
at their residences in Abuja.
Dokpesi also visited Prof. Tunde
Adeniran, former education minister and a rival in the PDP chairmanship race.
Clark, while receiving Dokpesi,
described him as “courageous, transparent, fearless and the right man the PDP
needs to move forward.”
Clark, who endorsed Dokpesi, said
that he had been a dedicated PDP member, “who did a lot for the party in 2015.”
The party stalwart stressed the
need for PDP to ensure internal democracy, pointing out that it was key to its
success in the 2019 general elections.
“For every election, PDP must
ensure that there is internal democracy.
“If 10 people want to be chairman
in a local government, they should all be allowed to go for the election. That
is how to do it,” Clark said.
He said that impunity of the
governors must be stopped, noting that the recent leadership crisis of the
party was caused by such impunity.
Clark advised PDP members and
leaders to see the December convention as an important project of the party
that would open doors for a brighter future.
Aliyu, who also endorsed Dokpesi,
said that the PDP needed a leader like him rather than “those that will create
negative image for the party.”
“After 14 months of leadership
crisis, there is the need to “rebuild, re-brand and rejuvenate the party,” he
said.
On his part, Bunu said that PDP
was responsible for its current woes.
“Borno PDP was made to remain in
opposition for 18 years by PDP. The party’s members kept undermining its
chances over the years,” he fumed.
He expressed confidence in
Dokpesi’s capacity to lead the party, saying that he had demonstrated his
commitment to fighting peoples’ causes.
“Supporting your ambition is not
for our individual selves, but for the party. We want PDP to succeed. We want
the values of the party’s founders sustained.
“If these values were sustained,
we would not have been where we are today,” Bunu said. Dokpesi, in his separate
responses, said that unity and sanity must return to PDP.
He said that PDP was in need of a
visionary leader, who was committed to its ideals and values.
Dokpesi said that he had remained
an unrepentant member of PDP and was a strong supporter of the Senator Ahmed
Makarfi-led national caretaker committee, even at the peak of the party crisis.
He promised to build a fearless
team that would prepare PDP for the 2019 elections.
Dokpesi had earlier visited Minna to seek the
blessings of two former military heads of state, retired Generals Ibrahim
Babangida and Abdulsalam Abubakar.
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