By Henry Umoru

ABUJA— THE National Leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said yesterday that the era of witch-hunt and victimization in the party was over.

It also reiterated that only the votes of party members in properly constituted congresses shall decide the fate of any aspirant.

In a statement by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali, the PDP said, “the PDP leadership will never be involved in arbitrary denial of rights of its members to seek any office; neither will it be involved in conferring undue advantage on any member in the conduct of its primaries.

Denying reports that as a party, there was a deliberate plot to stop certain persons from flying the flag of the PDP in the forthcoming general elections, said, “these phantom stories are another failed strategy by the opposition to concoct an atmosphere of crisis in the PDP.

“Their objective is to strike fear amongst our members and make them vulnerable for backdoor poaching by these desperate politicians.”