PDP Chairmanship: Bode George pledges to give youths a chance

An aspirant to the National Chairmanship position of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George has promised that he would quit the stage after ‎working for PDP for 20 years, so as to allow the younger ones a chance.

The aspirant who started working for the party in 1998 assured that he would be a team player if he wins the chairmanship.

George, a former PDP Deputy National Chairman who inaugurated his campaign office in Abuja yesterday, dispelled the fears of party members that he would be high-handed if elected chairman.

“I made a promise to quit the stage after ‎working for PDP for 20 years, so as to allow the younger ones a chance.”

“I am not going to be an overlord. Somebody must emerge and whoever emerges through a normal process, we will support him.

“If it is the will of God that I will be chairman I will work with everybody,” he promised.

He said PDP needs an experienced man person who “knows the written and unwritten laws” of the party to lead it, but however, submitted that it is God that anoints a leader

He disclosed that at a meeting with the party leadership on Tuesday, “We made a proposal to party managers, let us form a body of elders of the party to address the unnecessary competitions in our party.”

The former Deputy National Chairman reminded party members that there may not a second chance after surviving the crisis that engulfed the PDP, remarking, “My prayer is that our convention will be a carnival.”

Founder of Daar Communication and one of the aspirants in the chairmanship race, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi had extolled George’s virtues, and said he is qualified to lead PDP.

Dokpesi who wanted to pick his chairmanship nomination form Tuesday before it was put off at the ‎instance of the party, thanked George for the contributions he has made, not only to PDP but to Nigeria.

“He is eminently qualified to be PDP Chairman. He is a team player, very courageous. In 2019, we cannot succeed without the support of Bode George or any other aspirant,” he said.

‎Dokpesi described the contest as a family affair, and said that his presence at the campaign inauguration ceremony was in solidarity for Bode George.

“We rose from a meeting Tuesday and we agreed that this is going to be a family affair. We are going to shame our enemies.‎ Please continue supporting Bode George,” he charged George’s supporters.

A former National ‎Auditor of the party, Hon. Innocent Agbo said with George as National Chairman, PDP “will pursue, overtake and recover our position” in 2019.

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