The Peoples Democratic Party said in Abuja on Tuesday in Abuja that it was searching for alliances to enable it to regain power in 2019.
It said that there was no way its members would remain docile unlike members of other political parties who it said were busy meeting ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee, Ahmed Makarfi, stated this while inaugurating the PDP’s Committee on Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs.
The committee, which is headed by a former Minister of Information, Prof. Jerry Gana, also has a former Deputy Speaker, Mr. Austin Okpara, as secretary.
Makarfi, who said the membership of the committee was initially 85, said that more than 30 names were later added to it in order to cover the interest of other people.
Makarfi, who was apparently referring to the inability of the party to resolve its crisis with a faction of the party under the leadership of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, said the members of the party could no longer fold their arms and refuse to be active politically.
He said, “We do not begin by drawing conclusions but as life is dynamic, so is politics.
“You don’t remain docile and inactive; you don’t remain cornered so that you will be toyed around with at the whims of anybody.
“Long before now, we have talked about putting up a number of sub-committees to deal with different aspects of the affairs of our party, but because of litigation we have not settled down to do that.
“Time is going and a lot of things are happening, and our men and women, are on their own beginning to do all sorts of meetings.”
He insinuated that some members of the PDP in his faction were probably preparing to leave the party on their own, but said this should not be allowed to happen.
The former governor of Kaduna said, “However, if you don’t bring all your flocks together to talk as one family, before long, a good chunk of them would have gone on their own, because nobody will remain inactive for forever.
“After due consultation, we felt that time is now right to set up a committee, called the Strategy Review and Inter-party Affairs Committee.
“Strategy is how to come back to power in 2019 through every democratic means. Even as caretaker committee members, we are being approached by various groups and we felt that it is not the few of us that should be talking to these people.”
He said that the committee might seem large but added that its responsibilities were also huge.
He urged the members to break into sub- committees to enable them to talk to different groups and individuals.
Apart from this, he said it was the responsibility of the committee to advise the leadership on how to make the party stronger and better.
On the failed peace process in the party, he said the ongoing court cases involving the party and its faction needed to be cleared before peace could return to the former ruling party.
Apart from this, he also warned that, if this was not done, some elements in the party and outside it, could be used to derail its progress before the general elections.
Makarfi said that irrespective of the outcome of the moribund reconciliation, the PDP must reorganise and restrategise.
To do this, he urged members of the committee to engage all stakeholders “if you want to build a moving consensus to enable us to capture power in 2019.”
He gave the terms of reference to the committee as exploring strategies to engage all possible allies with a view to building positive relationship in furtherance of democracy in Nigeria.
The committee is also to recommend strategies to re-position the party and suggest necessary amendment to its constitution.
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Senator Walid Jubril, said that he was happy that 30 members of the board were included in the committee.
In his response, Gana said that the committee, which has three months within which to turn up its reports, would work tirelessly to meet the target.


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punchng.com/pdp-searches-alliance-ahead-2019-election/

I dey here mk them allign wt me

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Dead party! Even kowa will do better than pdp in 2019. Useless people!

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