The chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has appealed members to ensure that the ongoing party congresses in 26 states of the federation should be transparent.
“ We go into congresses we are appealing that we shall be all inclusive in whatever we are going to do. We shall be transparent and be accommodating and be free and fair in the conduct of the congresses. The world is watching us. And expecting us to build on what we have started with our last convention in Port Harcourt.
“Free, fair congresses that will engender leadership of our party from the grassroots to ward level, to local government level and to state level will strengthen our party. Mr Chairman we are with you, by you all the way”
On his part, chairman Board of the Trustees of the party, Senator Ali Walid Jibrin, has also urged that the approved guidelines for the party’s congresses be strictly adhere to.
“May I therefore advise that the approved guidelines must be seriously adhere to in other not to fall into a dangerous situation that affected APC in Zamfara state. The congresses must be free, fair and very transparent in in all levels. Registered members must be allowed to exercise their democratic rights at all levels as enshrined in the party’s constitution, he said.
Jibrin added that “While I congratulate the NWC for the guidelines, I do hope that electoral officers at various level will be well guided. The party should give opportunity to the party members who fear God and ready to abide to the constitution of the party”.
They made the appeal at the party’s 89th NEC meeting which was attended by governors of Rivers state, Nyesom Wike, Delta, Ifeanyi Okowa, Bayelsa, Duoye Diri, Bauchi, Bala Mohammed, Abia, Okezie Ikpeazu, Akwa Ibom, Udom Emmanuel, and Ebonyi, Dave Umahi.
Meanwhile, the PDP national chairman , Prince Uche Secondus, has insisted that Nigeria is still at cross road under the All Progressives Congress (APC) led federal government.
Secondus, who stated this while addressing members of the party at the 89th emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, at the party headquarters in Abuja, also claimed that Book Haram has returned fully to the North East.
Secondus said “I can report to you that between the last NEC and now our dear country is still at the cross road due to the now obvious inept leadership of the ruling All Progressives congress, APC. The security situation in the country has refused to abate and nothing concrete is being done by the government to ameliorate it and stop the senseless killing of innocent Nigerians.
“Even when the National Assembly after reviewing the situation and asked the President to overhaul the security system for greater efficiency, the government has continued to demonstrate their insensitivity to the plight of the populace. Nigerians have never been as afraid of their lives as they are at moment in this country. It’s as bad as that, he added.
PDP national chairman claimed that, “the North East the Boko Haram insurgency has returned fully and the President feels shocked that the sect still exists. We are already used to our President not knowing what is going on in the country even though as President the bulk stops on his table. The President may have been deceived by the intelligence reports from his field men who continues to indulge in propaganda of claiming that the sect has been defeated even when the situation is worsening with banditry and kidnapping spreading all over the states.
He continued “Nothing exposes the President’s insensitivity and distance from the reality and from the people like his shock that Boko haram still exists.
“On the Imo state case which shook the nation to its marrow, the Supreme Court graciously accepted to review itself and this is still ongoing as the nation and indeed the international communities are anxiously waiting for jistice. The party leadership notes pressure from some victims of injustice at the court like Osun and Kano states but we are approaching every issue with absolute caution in relation to the weight of evidence”.