By FESTUS AHON

NATIONAL Vice Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, South South Zone, Dr Steve Oru, wants party executives across the country to make efforts  geared towards enthroning democratic best practices that would endear the party to the people.

Oru, who spoke during the inauguration of the Delta State Executive Committee, led by Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, asked them to embark on alternative dispute resolution to bring back aggrieved members who have left the party, adding: “Our umbrella is big enough to accommodate them.”

He said: “In all you do,  let our party’s interest be utmost in your minds, knowing that the party is supreme. The constitution and hierarchy of the party strictly and religiously adhered to at all times and circumstances.

“Kindly engage the principles of consultation, discussion and dialogue in taking decisions that affect the generality of the people. Please carry the people along in all you do. As leaders of our great party at the state, I expect you to be firm, sincere, honest, transparent and God fearing in all dealings, no matter who is involved.

“To our party faithful, I implore you to join hands with the new leadership of our party that has just been sworn in today and at all other levels in the state, to move our party forward.

“This year marks the celebration of 13 years of stable democracy in our country. I wish to salute the founding fathers of our nation for their sacrifices for democracy. I doff my hat for the founding fathers of our great party, the PDP, the G-77 that wrestled Nigeria from the tight grip of the military, and midwifed our today’s democracy. I salute the past and present leadership of our party for the development and sustenance of our present democracy.”

Continuing, he said: “I wish to seize this opportunity to thank the good people of Delta State for nominating and electing me as National Vice Chairman of our zone. On behalf of myself and other zonal officers from the state and the entire zonal working committee, I thank you and wish to state that we are holding our various positions in trust for all of you and we promise not to betray this trust.

“We shall strive to give the zone a befitting headquarters that is ICT complaint and shall carry out a structural and functional over hauling of our party, under my leadership.

“We shall collaborate with our party led government and governors in the zone to put an institutional framework that will keep our party ahead of other parties and remain their trail blazer.”