A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and a former Senate Chief Whip, Rowland Owie has expressed support for efforts by a former Political Adviser to then President, Goodluck Jonathan, Ahmed Gulak, to effect a leadership change in the party, stressing that the latter should be allowed to reap where he has sown.
While advising national leaders of the PDP to talk less and “stop behaving like a widow who was trying to marry the driver of her late husband,” the Edo-born politician requested every member of the party to support Gulak to finish the term of the North-east as national chairman.
He disclosed this to journalists yesterday in Abuja ahead of the decisive meeting of the National Executive Council, NEC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, this Wednesday, where new leaders of the party are expected to emerge.
While referring to the legal action insisted by the former Presidential aide which ordered Secondus to quit as acting National Chairman, Owie said: “If Gulak did nothing at all, he has woken up for the elders and leaders of the PDP in the North-east. They were sleeping until Gulak woke them up. Where were they for the 11 months that Uche Secondus occupied the position of national chairman of the party until Gulak acted?
“They should know that power, anywhere in the world, is never donated. You work for it. I urge every PDP member to support Gulak to finish the term of the North-east of our national chairmanship position so that we can start a full reorganisation of the PDP.
“What I am saying is that for the past 11 months, when Secondus started acting, all the North-east leaders from where the former chairman, Adamu Muazu, came from, where have they been? The fact remains that Gulak went to court and they woke up.
“When men of truth keep quiet, the society will die and get rotten. We should face the truth both in private and in public. If power cannot be donated, Gukak has moved into it and has gotten judgment at the court.
“All what all of us need to do is to give him support as acting chairman of PDP, use the opportunity to reorganise the party and start up. By the time it is done, the PDP can officially zone power to where they want the national chairman to come from. Gulak’s entrance is just an interim measure to stabilise the party. Let justice be done, thereafter there will be a new national convention. With Gulak there, we will now sit down, the party will look at all the problems.
“Let there be order, we are not saying Gulak is the best, but having secured victory in court which nobody did, the young man did it. So let him take up the acting chairmanship for a period. Then, all hands will be on deck, we will do the convention to decide the next line of action,” the ex-lawmaker stated.
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