By Abdulsalam Muhammad

KANO — National chairmanship aspirant of Peoples Democratic Party, Sadiq Bello Sardauna has pledged to reunite the party and relaunched it to winning ways if given the mandate by his party men during the forthcoming national Congress of the party.

Addressing reporters in Kano, on Sunday, the 34-year-old Gombe-born grassroot politician said that his candidacy offers a window of opportunity for self rediscovery by the party.

PDP and its colour flags

Sardauna explained that “participatory democracy usually provides platform for both the youth and the old to exhibit their leadership potentials, and we felt this is the time to step out and change the change.”

The National Chairmanship aspirant said the crisis in the party requires the “energy and wealth of experience of a youth that can in between diverse interests and come up with results.”

Unveiling his agenda for a greater PDP, the business mogul harped on party supremacy, internal democracy as veritable components to move the party forward.

Speaking further, the Oil magnate said that his leadership would empower party leaders to be economically independent of elected public officers to earn respect.

Sardauna stressed “party supremacy suffers where a supposed party leader for want economy looks for patronage from the elected representatives, and we would do our best to discourage this age long practice in the interest of our democracy”.

He said that graduates would be encouraged to vie for positions within the party, adding the measure is to restore confidence among the youths and as well raise the quality of Nigeria’s democracy.

Sadiq Bello Sardauna called on party faithful to close rank as a panacea to recover lost power by 2019.

“We need to forgive and understand our differences if truly we want to make headway at recovering lost ground and power by 2019”, Sardauna said.