North East PDP Backs Governors’ Stand on Party’s Leadership Struggle, Knocks APC

*Says 16 years of PDP rule best in democratic dispensation

Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi

The Zonal Working Committee and states chairmen of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Northeast Zone, have declared support for the recent decision taken by the party’s governors’ forum on the leadership crisis rocking its National Working Committee (NWC).

The zone also observed that the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC)-led federal administration has brought untold hardship to the generality of Nigerians, while no proactive measures were being taken to remedy the situation.

The  Zonal PDP at the end of its meeting held in Bauchi, stressed that the meeting was necessitated by the current happening at the national level of the party.

The meeting reflected on the 16 years of the PDP at the helms of affairs as a ruling party and how it lost out to the APC in 2015 declaring that, “The PDP years were indeed a blessing to the Nation.”

The meeting agreed that it was the only party that couldprovide the needed solution to the current challenges facing the nation, thus making it the last hope of Nigerians as the ‘messiah’ for salvation.

The well-attended meeting deliberated extensively on moving the party forward, made resolutions and issued a communique signed by the Zonal Secretary, Kabiru Bappa Jauro, on behalf of the Zonal Chairman, Rev Emmanuel Bovoa and read by the Adamawa State Chairman, Tahir Shehu.

The meeting stated that since the inception of democratic rule in 1999, the PDP had been dominant in the North East sub-region, producing a former Vice President, former/Serving Governors, former/serving National Chairmen, former/serving National Assembly and State Assembly Members making the Party to have tremendously contributed to the socio economic development of the Zone, and Nigeria at large.

“As regards to the National Chairmanship tussle, the meeting wishes to align itself in-toto with the position of the governors, the BOT, National Assembly Caucus and all the Major critical stakeholders in the Zone. This, we believe shall bring decorum and sanity that will lead the party to lofty heights.”