By Austin Ogwuda

Asaba-DELTA State Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Peter Nwaoboshi, yesterday, confessed that the party had been torn apart by internal wrangling, just as he announced the setting up of Truth and Reconciliation Committee headed by Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, to reconcile factions within the party.

He noted that lack of unity and cohesion were the bane of the party. Nwaoboshi, who addressed newsmen, at the party’s secretariat in Asaba, said nobody can scuttle the assignment of the reconciliation committee, pointing out that he was prepared to face the committee to pour out his heart.

He said: “In 1999 we formed PDP as young men without anything. But we were able to capture power in the state because there was cohesion, unity and love and we took it as a challenge and delivered the state. In the first election, we had 24 members in the Delta Assembly, but what is happening today?

Nwaoboshi added that the state Working Committee of the party had resolved to sanction 16 members of the party, including a one time state chairman of the party, Dr. Pius Sinebe, among others.

He said: “The state Working Committee at its meeting of August 1, considered the report of the ad hoc disciplinary committee and resolved that both Chief Terry Noah, Vice, Central; and Mr. Ben Obuh, Vice, North, should tender a written and public apology to the party; Chief Felix Anirah, Sapele, suspended for two months and Dr. Pius Sinebe, Patani to apologise to the party.”