By Anthony Ogbonna

Following the continued defection of party members from other parties, especially from the All Progressives Congress (APC) back to its fold, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has assured all members, both old and returnees, of adequate protection, accommodation and a level playing ground at every level of political engagement and aspirations ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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The PDP also assured its members that it has taken note of all concerns raised by highly respected and committed leaders of the party, as it concerns accommodation of interests as well as new alignments. It said it has equally taken extensive measures that would ultimately ensure that no person or group is, in anyway, short-changed.

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday, PDP said though it appreciates and values every concern, that it is, however, instructive to inform that its national leadership had already envisaged the challenges of an enlarged family and had since made adequate arrangements that would effectively cover all interests for the task ahead.

The statement further reads thus:

“The repositioned PDP has amply learnt from the past. All members must therefore dispel every fear in relation to control of our structure as well as processes for selection of candidates for election, especially on the choice of our Presidential candidate, as such will be handled with the strictest adherence to the principles of internal democracy and zero tolerance for imposition.

Our great party has now, more than ever before, become a centre of the new patriotic and broad-based engagements by overwhelming majority of Nigerians, across board, in the renewed democratic realignment that places priority on rescuing our nation from the misrule of President Muhammadu Buhari and his anti-people All Progressives Congress (APC).

Whereas the APC has the colossal misfortune of being stuck with a very unpopular and unimpressive Presidential candidate, who has brought unpardonable pain and anguish to millions of innocent citizens, the PDP remains open, as the only dependable platform for all Nigerians, across board, to democratically and transparently coalesce and throw up that credible pan-Nigerian President and a government of national unity to move our nation out of the woods which we have been plunged by the dysfunctional APC.

The PDP therefore urges all members to join forces with millions of compatriots who are already rallying on our rebranded platform to achieve this collective quest, which has become to them, a national emergency, come 2019.”