Mua’zu, others shun PDP post-election panel inauguration
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, and three state governors named as members of the party’s
15-member Post-Election Assessment Committee, on Tuesday shunned the
inauguration of the panel.
Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Theodore Orji (Abia) and Ibrahim Dankwabo (Gombe) and the Secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees, Alhaji Walid Jibril, who was the secretary to the committee, did not turn up for the event, which held at the PDP headquarters in Abuja.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, however explained that the chairman was out of the country for a family commitment.
The governors were said to be indisposed.
The party leadership had on Sunday announced the setting up of the committee, to review and evaluate the poor performance of the PDP in the last general elections and make recommendations for the repositioning of the party.
At the inauguration, Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who chairs the committee, regretted the party’s poor outing at the polls, and appealed to members to halt the ongoing blame game and recrimination.
Ekweremadu said, “Our pains and disappointments are well founded, especially given the enormous hopes and prospects the party holds as a pan-Nigerian movement for social, economic, and political transformations.
“Thus, it is not a loss for the PDP only, but a loss to the great people of this country that the party lost the steering at the time it had laid a solid foundation through the transformation agenda of the present administration.
“However, we must appreciate the fact that change is the only constant thing in life. Much as we are pained by the sad turn of events, we must come to terms with the fact that anger, recriminations, self-pity, and blame trading will not take us even an inch away from the harsh outcomes of the 2015 general elections.”
According to him, the worst tragedy that could befall the PDP is not the loss of the 2015 presidential election, its majority status at the National Assembly or some PDP controlled states to the opposition.
“All through human history, even the greatest and strongest empires have suffered one setback or the other at certain points of their existence. Instead, the greatest tragedy would be our failure to draw from the lessons embedded in the outcome of the elections,” he noted.
The Deputy Senate President observed that the party’s dwindling fortunes presented an opportunity to reassess and reinvent the PDP to retake its rightful place in the Nigerian polity for a much longer time.
The National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, who stood in for the party chairman, said the party transformed the country from a near pariah state to the “largest economy” in Africa.
According to him, the PDP expanded the frontiers of freedom in the 16 years the party governed the country at the centre, adding that the party was proud of its achievements.
Only a few of the committee members turned up for the inauguration.
These included Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha; Rivers State Governor-Elect, Nyesom Wike; Interior Minister, Abba Moro; former Ekiti chapter chairman, Makanjuola Ogundipe, Alhaji Adamu Waziri and Chief Pegba Otemolu.
This story was published by THE PUNCH NEWSPAPER.
Governors Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Theodore Orji (Abia) and Ibrahim Dankwabo (Gombe) and the Secretary of the PDP Board of Trustees, Alhaji Walid Jibril, who was the secretary to the committee, did not turn up for the event, which held at the PDP headquarters in Abuja.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, however explained that the chairman was out of the country for a family commitment.
The governors were said to be indisposed.
The party leadership had on Sunday announced the setting up of the committee, to review and evaluate the poor performance of the PDP in the last general elections and make recommendations for the repositioning of the party.
At the inauguration, Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, who chairs the committee, regretted the party’s poor outing at the polls, and appealed to members to halt the ongoing blame game and recrimination.
Ekweremadu said, “Our pains and disappointments are well founded, especially given the enormous hopes and prospects the party holds as a pan-Nigerian movement for social, economic, and political transformations.
“Thus, it is not a loss for the PDP only, but a loss to the great people of this country that the party lost the steering at the time it had laid a solid foundation through the transformation agenda of the present administration.
“However, we must appreciate the fact that change is the only constant thing in life. Much as we are pained by the sad turn of events, we must come to terms with the fact that anger, recriminations, self-pity, and blame trading will not take us even an inch away from the harsh outcomes of the 2015 general elections.”
According to him, the worst tragedy that could befall the PDP is not the loss of the 2015 presidential election, its majority status at the National Assembly or some PDP controlled states to the opposition.
“All through human history, even the greatest and strongest empires have suffered one setback or the other at certain points of their existence. Instead, the greatest tragedy would be our failure to draw from the lessons embedded in the outcome of the elections,” he noted.
The Deputy Senate President observed that the party’s dwindling fortunes presented an opportunity to reassess and reinvent the PDP to retake its rightful place in the Nigerian polity for a much longer time.
The National Secretary of the PDP, Prof. Wale Oladipo, who stood in for the party chairman, said the party transformed the country from a near pariah state to the “largest economy” in Africa.
According to him, the PDP expanded the frontiers of freedom in the 16 years the party governed the country at the centre, adding that the party was proud of its achievements.
Only a few of the committee members turned up for the inauguration.
These included Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha; Rivers State Governor-Elect, Nyesom Wike; Interior Minister, Abba Moro; former Ekiti chapter chairman, Makanjuola Ogundipe, Alhaji Adamu Waziri and Chief Pegba Otemolu.
This story was published by THE PUNCH NEWSPAPER.
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