Bayelsa State Governor Douye Diri has expressed the conviction that the crisis within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will soon become a thing of the past.
Diri, who stated this on Sunday after the PDP South-South Zonal Stakeholders’ meeting at the Ibom Hall in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, described the PDP as a big family that had held sway in the South-South geo-political zone.
He said in such large families there were bound to be disagreements.
According to him, “South-South is the only zone that has a preponderance of PDP governors. Therefore, it should be the zone to kick-off the PDP presidential campaign. We have also been lucky to produce the vice presidential candidate.
“PDP will continue to demonstrate strength in the six states of the South-South. Our party is a big family and in any of such families, it is normal to have differences. I strongly believe that the differences would be settled soon and we will come back as one indivisible party. Our region is blessed with human and material resources as well as politically and we will continue to add value to Nigeria and the party.”
In his remarks, the PDP vice presidential candidate and governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, said the essence of the meeting was to strategize on how to mobilise the people at all levels to ensure a landslide victory for the party in next year’s general election.
Okowa also acknowledged the role of the PDP governors in the development of the region, stressing that time had come for the party to rescue the country from insecurity and economic downturn.
Also speaking, the director-general of the PDP Presidential Campaign and governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, noted that with the impressive turnout of stakeholders at the meeting, it was a clear indication that the party was ready to clinch victory in 2023,”the outcome of the Edo and Osun elections was a clear testimony that the PDP was the party to reckon with in the election.”
