By Festus Ahon, Samuel Oyadongha & Emem Idio

ASABA—Former Delta State governorship aspirant on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Sunny Onuesoke, has called on the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku and others, who left the party for one reason or the other, to return home to PDP.

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Onuesoke, who made the call when he played host to  members of Niger Delta Youths for Peace, NDYP, at the International Headquarters of Onuesoke Foundation in Warri, Delta State, said: “Atiku, Saraki and other founding fathers of our great party worked hard to position the party and make it the biggest political party in Africa.

“The new rebranded PDP is big enough to accommodate everybody. I am happy that the former governor of Oyo State, Rashidi Ladoja, is back to the party. Others like Atiku, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Ita-Giwa, should consider and take that bold decision too.

“The leadership of the party  won’t relent until all those that left the party, prior to the 2015 general election, are brought back.”

Meanwhile, in Bayelsa State, PDP has inaugurated a 10-member Contact and Mobilisation Committee, with a mandate to reach out to its former members, who defected to All Progressive Congress, APC, and other parties.

Chairman of the state PDP, Mr. Moses Cleopas, weekend, at the inauguration, held at the party secretariat in Yenagoa, said the committee, which is headed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Political Matters, Chief Fyneman Wilson, has three weeks to submit its report.

In his remarks, Governor Seriake Dickson charged members of the committee to mop up all the opposition parties in the state as PDP’s umbrella was big enough to accommodate them.

Dickson, who described PDP in the state as the only formidable political party with the capacity to win any election as manifested in the just-concluded elections in the state, said the state remains the only state in the core Niger Delta that won a governorship election on a platform different from the platform at the centre.

, will also “make appropriate recommendation to the state party executives when the need arises for further consultation and consideration.”

The committee,  is also expected to make recommendation as to when such former members should be officially re-admitted back into PDP fold.

Cleopas, who urged the committee to submit its report within three weeks, expressed confidence in its ability to deliver on the assignment.

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