The National Reconciliation
Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by the Bayelsa State
Governor, Hon Henry Seriake Dickson, has submitted its report to the National
Working Committee led by the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche
Secondus at the National Secretariat, Wadata House, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja.
While making the presentation,
Governor Dickson thanked the party for the thoughtful and proactive steps taken
in setting up the Reconciliation Committee and warned opposition APC and the
Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, against any attempt to rig the
2019 elections.
He also expressed gratitude to
the party for the support the committee received in actualising its mandate.
Governor Dickson equally
congratulated the Chairman and the NWC for the mammoth support of the party as
witnessed in the just-held rally in Jigawa State; a sign post that Nigerians
across the country have accepted the party on the one hand, and issued a quit
notice to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) come 2019, on the other.
The Bayelsa Governor stated that
the committee started work even before the convention ended and proactively
moved round the country; engaged party leaders and members who harboured
grievances and complaints in respect of the 2018 National Convention.
He appreciated the leaders of the
party across the country for the warm reception, high regard and team spirit
they accorded the committee throughout the assignment.
He added that the committee
having interacted with a cross section of party leaders, women and youths
summarized key issues raised across the country.
The issues include:
1. The committee is of the view
that the PDP should lead a broad-based coalition to wrest power from the APC in
order to salvage Nigeria form further ruin. It recommended that the party
should build alliances and establish inter- personal contacts with everyone,
including those that have either left or abandoned the party. This desire for
the broad-based coalition should be open to everyone who intends to salvage the
country from the present mismanagement of the ruling party.
2. The NWC should as soon as
possible constitute all statutory standing committees of the party including a
strategy committee for the task ahead. The composition of the leadership and
membership of these committees must include women, youth and leaders of our
party especially those who feel aggrieved and excluded from party activities.
3. In the course of our engagements
across the country, we realized that the South West Geo-political Zone deserves
some special attention and thus we recommend close personal interaction between
the NWC and the zone.
4. We equally received several
complaints that border on the involvement of women. Thus we suggest that the
party should deliberately crave the support and involvement of women. As the
most women-friendly party in the country, the NWC should deliberately cultivate
them and assure them that our doors shall remain open for them at all levels of
the party.
5. The most crucial part of our
recommendations which the entire country hasreiterated is the party’s respect
for the rule of law and internal democracy. Even though, we are adjudged the
most Democratic Party in the country today, we must re-examine ourselves and
create a level playing field for all aspirants at all times.
Concluding, the Governor once
more thanked the party for the honour and privilege to serve and pledged that
he and members of the committee are readily available to serve the party in
whatever capacity whenever called upon. His words: “I and other members of the
committee have pledged to work for the party and the nation until the nation is
salvaged.”
In his reply,the National
Chairman thanked the committee for the good work done. He stated that the
report would serve as a guiding template for the going forward of the party. He
added that henceforth, the committee has being designated as a standing
committee to guide the party in the build-up to the 2019 elections.
“This is a new PDP, rebranded and
repositioned to regain lost power” adding that ‘PDP is open to everyone with
particular emphasis on women and youths. We want the party to be open to women
and youths to aspire to the highest office in the land so we can jointly rescue
our nation”, he said.
Prince Secondus stressed on the
fact that even during the years of the Nigerian Civil War, the country was
never as divided and disunited as it presently is under the watch of the APC
government.
Hear him: “APC government is a
threat to the unity of this country and only PDP has the capacity to restore
the unity of the country once again”.
While positing that the party’s
stands with the National Assembly to make laws for the land and the good of the
people and not for any cabal in Aso Rock, the party chairman said, ‘The APC
government is broken and we are ready with open doors for all the other parties
to join hands and rescue this country from ruin’.
In his conclusion, the chairman
said, “We hope to form a government of national unity in 2019 where all
Nigerians will have a sense of belonging irrespective of religion, tribe or
gender. Let me sound a note of warning, APC and INEC cannot rig the 2019
elections. The election is for Nigerians to decide who would lead them and
Nigerians shall resist any attempt to rig the 2019 election at all cost”.
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