The Benue State Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic party (PDP) has called on the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to explore options towards fostering reconciliation, unity, re-branding and repositioning the party to recover its lost glory rather than witch-hunting perceived enemies.
This is even as the publicity secretary of the party, Bemgba Iortyom in a statement on behalf of the party lamented that in the entire history of the PDP, the party had never fared so badly in an election in Benue State as witnessed in the 2023 general elections when its national chairman is from the state.
They said, “Benue State chapter of the PDP views with grave concern the action taken by the NWC of the party in referring Governor Ortom to its disciplinary committee to answer charges of anti party activities preferred against him.
“Benue PDP finds it difficult to understand the rationale by which anti party activities are determined at the national secretariat by the NWC such as singling one out of the G-5 for punitive action, what is the procedure is for meting out punitive measures against such anti party activities where some persons including Professor Dennis Ityavyar having been suspended without facing any disciplinary Committee?
“In fulfilling our duties as the SWC we want to remind the NWC that their action runs in contempt of a subsisting court injunction restraining PDP at all levels from taking any punitive action against the Benue State governor pending the determination of a substantive suit which is lying before a court of competent jurisdiction.
Secondly, going by the mood within “PDP ranks in Benue, it is the expected that the emphasis now will be on mending bonds of unity and internal cohesion which were badly damaged in the build-up to and during the 2023 elections leading to the huge losses recorded by the party at the polls against an evidently weaker opposition not witch-hunting perceived enemies.”
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