- Asks Party elders, stakeholders to resolve crisis soonest
- Include all Presidential Aspirants in PDP Campaign Council
A former Presidential Aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr Nwachukwu Anakwenze, has called on the party to put its house in order to enable it win the 2023 Presidential Election.
While frowning at the lingering internal crisis within the party, he appealed strongly to high ranking stakeholders and elders of the party across the country to come together urgently to resolve the crisis and reshape Nigeria’s leading opposition party soonest.
Anakwenze’s appeal was contained in a statement on Tuesday by the Director General, Anakwenze Campaign Organisation, ACO, Comrade Eric Oluwole, where he also commended the party’s former Presidential Aspirants who visited former Vice President and the PDP Presidential Candidate, His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, recently for a meeting.
He described the meeting as a patriotic move initiated by the party’s former Presidential Aspirants that would accelerate the ongoing reconciliation to forge the much-needed unity of all groups and individuals within the party behind one purpose of working seriously for the victory of the Party’s Candidate in the coming Presidential Election.
In the statement, he also called for the inclusion of all former Presidential aspirants of the party as members of the PDP National Presidential Campaign Council, a step which he said would help greatly in the ongoing reconciliation within the party and mobilisation of the electorate nationwide behind the PDP Flagbearer as he leads the party’s impending national campaign to win the February 25, 2023 Presidential Election.
Already, he said that his Campaign Organization structure has been sensitising and mobilising people across Nigeria to support our Party.
According to the statement “Anakwenze said that there is need for all former Presidential Aspirants to release to the PDP Presidential Campaign Team their individual campaign and political structures nationwide, experiences and ideas for the prosecution of a united, well packaged National Campaign to ensure that Nigerians overwhelmingly vote in His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as their next President who is coming in with well designed fresh policies and programmes to rebuild our dear Country Nigeria into a land flourishing in abundance of milk and honey, security, true development, justice and peace.
“Stressing the need for reconciliation of all aggrieved groups and individuals within the party before the campaign formally kicks off in a few weeks, Anakwenze said the PDP needs to go into the electoral battle as a united and formidable force to enable the party record a resounding victory at the coming election.
“Particularly, Anakwenze called for the resolution of the crisis which arose following the Party’s Presidential Primary won by His Excellency, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the picking of Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as his running mate over which the River State Governor Nyesom Wike is aggrieved. Besides, the same Governor Wike has been campaigning that the Party’s National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu should step down for a southerner to take over to ensure balance in line with the Constitution of the Party. Meanwhile, the party’s National Executive Council, NEC has passed a vote of confidence in Ayu to continue in office as the National Chairman.
“According to the former Presidential Aspirant, a united PDP will be in the overall interest of the party and our dear Motherland Nigeria which is in dire need of a rescue operation from the worsening chaos and confusion, as typified by the horrors being daily and hourly witnessed by our people across the country in killings by bandits; kidnappings for ransom; instigated bloody intra and inter communal clashes; insurgency, unprecedented insecurity; falling Naira with its attendant ugly consequences on the crumbling economy; mass hunger, poverty, despondency and destitution; unacceptable high unemployment rate among youths, school leavers and university graduates; and crashing education system which is aggravated by endless strikes by University teachers and other staff over poor funding; among other frightening socioeconomic crises of an unimaginable magnitude.”
