The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it has begun the process of reconciling its disgruntled members who deserted to other political parties in the South-East zone.
This was said by the party at its zonal meeting in Enugu, where it was stated that the step was part of the efforts launched to restore its position in the zone.
It expressed hope that the program will serve to strengthen its support base for the country’s political and historical development.
Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State challenged party leaders and faithful in the region to rise to the job of regaining lost territory and rebuilding the party to its former preeminence.
Mbah, the zone’s party leader, stated that the party’s financial, administrative, and operational strategies needed to be revised.
He voiced his firm belief that the party would rise again in the zone.
Mbah said:
“As the National Vice Chairman South-East rightly observed, we have shed a lot of weight.
“Today, when you look at other parties, whether it is Labour Party, All Progressives Congress or the New Nigeria Peoples Party, and so on, you are actually talking about PDP members.
“But providence has placed a lot on us in the history of the party that we now have to steer the affairs of the party and pull it back to its former glory, to that pre-eminent position we have always held in the historical and political development of this country.
“And in doing that, we have a couple of areas we have to look into, such as financial, administrative, and operational strategies to bring us back to pre-eminence.”
The Governor went on to say that it was time for the party to start planning how to reclaim the “pole position” that they had always had.
“It means we have to first of all consolidate our support base as a party, and now reach out to our brothers and sisters, who may have felt aggrieved for one reason or the other and left the party to see how we can bring them back,” he said.
