Former President Goodluck Jonathan has thrown his weight behind the Governor Seriake Dickson-led Peoples Democratic Party Peace and Reconciliation Committee.

The former president insisted on Saturday that a political solution remained the best option to resolve the ongoing crisis in the PDP.



Jonathan, who received the governor and members of his committee in his home in Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, urged the contending parties to embrace negotiations as a way out of the crisis.

He commended the governor for going round the country to meet with key stakeholders and leaders of the party in order to ensure that peace reigns in the PDP.

He also expressed reservations over the use of courts to settle political matters, stressing that a political solution would ensure a win-win outcome for the warring groups.

Jonathan said, “I believe a political solution remains the best means of resolving the crisis in the party and that’s why the Dickson committee must be commended. No two parties go to court and come out smiling, especially for a political party like the PDP that’s in the opposition.”

The former president insisted that courts should ordinarily have no business in deciding who should be the chairman of a political party.

Governor Dickson, in his remarks, said Bayelsa State had benefited substantially from the PDP, noting that the party remained the only one that had given the position of president to Bayelsa, a minority.

In his remarks, a former Minister of the FCT, Prof. Jerry Gana, paid glowing tributes to the leadership quality of Dickson as a peacemaker and commended his efforts at pushing the peace process.

“He has pushed the process so relentlessly to the extent that the success of finding a lasting resolution to the crisis has become evident,” Gana said.

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" Governor Dickson, in his remarks, said Bayelsa State had benefited substantially from the PDP, noting that the party remained the only one that had given the position of president to Bayelsa, a minority.
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Nigerians and their love for the celebration of mediocrity! See achievement according to a whole governor?

SMH!

All I can do is..

will uncle Jonah join the new PDP or the old PDP? I'd place my bet on him joining the new one cos that was how APC took overbthem too only that it'll amount to delusion of Grandeur.

Is it that there are no leaders of tomorrow in Nigeria that we still have the same recycled guys all over again?

mrphysics:
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Pepper,ginger and Maggi

As if GEJ is somebody in Nigeria politics of today.