Ahead of the November 11 governorship elections in Bayelsa, Imo and Kogi states, the People Democratic Party (PDP) has begun moves to reconcile aggrieved members to ensure victory.
A chieftain of the Party, Emmanuel Ogidi, stated that the PDP was doing everything possible to quickly reconcile its aggrieved members and misunderstanding within the party in the three states.
According to him, this would ensure the party is united, work together and mobilise for victory in elections.
“We have the confident of victory in the elections and that is why we want to quickly talk to one another and reconcile all grievances so that it does not affect our chances,” Ogidi said.
He noted that although PDP seemed to be passing through some challenges at the moment, the party had its in-built mechanism to resolve any challenges.
“There is no family without problem, but we have our own in-built machinery to deal with things like that. That is why we recently had a select meeting of National Working Committee to proffer the way forward.”
Ogidi maintained that though PDP was not structured to be opposition party, it must learn to play the role now that it has found itself in that position.
“One of our setbacks is that when you look at some of the principal persons in All the Progressives Congress (APC) they were previously in the PDP,’’ Ogidi said.
On the call on the PDP leaders to suspend all members alleged to have worked against the party in 2023 general election, Ogidi said the party would give a fair hearing on the allegations.
“You need to give them a fair hearing that is why we are contemplating setting up committees to visit each state and find out what happened and the reasons members acted the way they did. Some of them may have genuine reason. If you have genuine reason we can reconcile,” Ogidi said.
