LAGOS — President Goodluck
Jonathan early Thursday,
directed the top hierarchy of
the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP to reinvigorate the party
machinery towards meeting fresh challenges arising from the
merger of the major opposition
political parties into the
fledgling All Progressive
Congress, APC. The president’s directive was
conveyed at the national caucus
of the party which commenced
Wednesday night in the
presidential villa during which he
also mandated the party to commence preparations to win
Anambra State in the
forthcoming gubernatorial
elections. Also reflective of the president’s
ascendancy over the party’s
governors, it was also resolved
that the National Executive
Committee, NEC, of the party
should be summoned within the next three weeks. The NEC
meeting has not been held since
July on account of palpable
fears by some in the national
leadership that the party’s
governors could force their views on issues. The caucus meeting which was
attended by six governors
representative of the six
geopolitical zones, Vanguard
learnt, also discussed varying
strategies to combat other issues confronting the party
including the poor state of the
party’s finances. The national chairman of the
party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, it
was learnt, told the caucus that
the party was practically broke
and unable to meet its
obligations. Upon the assertion, the president was reported to
have directed that strategies
should be employed to shore up
the finances, though with the
strict warning that nothing
should be done to compromise the integrity of officials of
government. “The president and those who
spoke said that in the light of
what happened after the second
republic when governors were
hounded for financial
impropriety because of the way they financed their parties, it
was stressed that the governors
must be protected from such
temptations.” The president it was learnt told
the party executives to put
machinery in place to be able to
confront the emerging challenge
from the APC, one source present
at the meeting said. “Well it was not actually a wake
up call, but just a necessary
thing or something that is
expected of us,” another source
present at the meeting offered. The president also at the
meeting directed that the party
must begin the process of
preparing for the elections in
Anambra State and it was
stressed that the will of the people must be allowed to
prevail. As part of the strategies of
winning the state, it was learnt
that the preparations must
begin early enough to enable
hurt feelings from the primaries
to heal well ahead of the election. “The president was insistent that
the will of the people must
prevail,” a source disclosed. One other source disclosed that
the party’s fund raising
committee headed by Vice-
president Namadi Sambo should
be further tasked with the duty
of exploring options for raising funds for the party. The decision to seek independent
ways of raising funds it was
understood could end up finally
taking the party away from the
influence of the governors who
until recently were allegedly strong financial supporters of
the party.
www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/jonathan-mobilises-pdp-to-face-apc-challenge/

All na lie PDP is to big 4 dat

To be sincere with you our president is trying to achieve one (1) agenda Since all this years out of seven (7) point Agenda.......am not impress by this present Administration

But i pray for a better Leader sha...

bring it on.

PDP can never win Anambra State
since it is not performing. With the
death of Dim Odumegwu (blessed
memory) and crisis rocking APGA, the
road is now set for the known
messiah, Chris Ngige to easily take over the state and continue from
where he stopped.

"The president also at the
meeting directed that the party
must begin the process of
preparing for the elections in
Anambra State and it was
stressed that the will of the people must be allowed to
prevail"

Bravo Mr president for consistently, in secret and in public, advocating free and fair elections.

Hmmmm...has governance been pushed aside? And politics is now the order of the day.

King Solomon I: Hmmmm...has governance been pushed aside? And politics is now the order of the day.

Help me ask APC governors oh!

Pikin wey say him papa no go sleep ..him too no go sleep nah.. Abi? Nah today day break that He suddenly realise that the party needs reorganisation? I hope He is seeing what is going on in Kenya... 2015 let him hire those olumba olumba people to come help him pack and go to Otueke .... Nigerians deserve a better and intelligent president.