PDP, Govs, Senators- Elect, Reps- Elect, others meet next week

By Henry Umoru ABUJA- NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP will next week hold a marathon meeting with all its governors, governors- elect, all the Senators, Senators- Elect, that of the House of Representatives and all the candidates who participated in the March 28 and April 11 general elections. The meeting according to PDP which would be the first since the Presidential elections after the defeat of its candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan by the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari,retd, would serve as a postmortem on the outing of the party, just as it planned to use the meeting as a step towards rebuilding the party. The PDP has also directed all the States and Zonal Chairmen of the Party to furnish the National Working Committee, NWC with the comprehensive reports on the last general elections in their respective States and Zones for the party to take general review of events and to take a common stand on the general conduct of the polls. Speaking with Journalists yesterday in Abuja, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the leadership of PDP raised alarm over an alleged plot by the APC to distabilise the Party using those the party described as disgruntled members to execute the plot as an aftermath of the 2015 general elections. Metuh who vowed that the Party would resist such devilish plot, said, “the NWC has noted some divisive comments and statements by certain elements within the party who are being enticed by extraneous factors and other parties to cause disharmony in our ranks”. “While cautioning against such comments, we urge our members with genuine grievances to direct them through the appropriate channels within our party in line with the provisions of the PDP constitution. “We are aware that some elements within our Party have been co- opted by the APC to distabilize our party aftermath of the outcome of the results of the 2015 general elections,while others have defected to the APC,some have been asked to stay behind to be used to execute the plot but the NWC will not allow this to happen.” While reassuring that the Party would bounce back with a bang in no too distance future, Metuh said “We reassure all our members that the NWC has put a machinery in place to reengineer and refocus our great party in keeping with our collective determination to consolidate our support base in all states of the federation with a view to regaining power at the center in the next four years since it is obvious that the APC lacks what it takes to effectively lead our dear nation”.