Asks party members to pray for Buhari
From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said that the party’s return to power in the 2019 general elections will be like a tsunami.
He urged members of the party to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari, so that he will recover and return office soon.
Speaking at the public presentation of the report of the PDP Strategy Review and Inter-party Committee in Abuja yesterday, Makarfi said although the PDP was desirous of taking over power in 2019, it wanted to do so under an orderly atmosphere.
He added that although the PDP had faced serious challenges, it was determined to regain power in the country.
“We have been facing a lot of challenges. One of the ways they have evolved to hold down and destroy opposition in the country is to use the court to tie us down. But we refuse to be tied down. We want to keep the party moving. PDP’s return shall be a great tsunami. We are not going to sleep,” he said.
The PDP leader admitted that the PDP made mistakes in the past, noting that one of such mistakes was imposition of candidates during elections and taking things for granted.
While thanking the committee for the report, he said the assignment had laid the path for the recovery of the PDP. He, however, stated that the report would be presented to the various organs of the party for ratification.
The former Kaduna governor said all hands must be on deck to reposition the PDP, adding that governors elected on the party’s platform, its former ministers, former governors and all members of the party had a role to play to lift the party.
“We had made mistakes and we apologise. The report has laid the path of recovery for the party. One of mistakes was taking things for granted; taking people for granted and imposition. Even, I must have imposed and I apologise. After imposition, what did we achieve from it?,” he queried.
Makarfi, while stating that institutions in the country were being bastardised, warned: “Nigerians cannot continue to be patient forever. It is either we do the right thing or the right thing will be done to us.”
He promised that if the PDP regained power, it would work towards the reformation of institutions in the country, noting that the various institutions currently served the interest of those in office, not Nigerians.
Speaking earlier, chairman of the committee, Professor Jerry Gana, said some of the key recommendations of the report included strict adherence to the principles of zoning and rotation of political offices, use of direct primaries to select candidates for election and entrenching internal democracy.
Gana added that several political parties were already talking with the PDP, with a view to collaborating with it in future elections.
“We are pleased to report that our initial contacts have yielded positive responses from seven people-focused and social democratic parties. This has nothing to do with the rumoured mega party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP,” he said.
Former Minister of Finance, Mallam Adamu Ciroma, also lauded the report. He said the committee’s report was the best thing anybody could do to upgrade the PDP.
The ceremony was attended by members of the National Caretaker Committee, Board of Trustees (BoT) members and party leaders across the country.
The 115-man committee was inaugurated by the caretaker committee in November last year to fashion out ways to reposition the PDP and explore possible collaboration with other political parties ahead of the 2019 general election.
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