Deputy Senate President, DSP, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has advised chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to put to rest their internal bickering and media hostilities occasioned by the outcome of the 2015 general elections.
According to a statement issued by his Special adviser Media, Uche Anichukwu, the DSP made this call yesterday during the inauguration of the PDP Post-election Review Committee at the party’s headquarters in Abuja where he expressed hopes that “the PDP will bounce back very soon”.
Ekweremadu, who is the Chairman of the newly inaugurated Post-election Review Committee empathized with party faithfuls over their party’s poor outing in the 2015 general elections, asserting that “change is the only constant thing in life”.
He noted that, “much as we are pained by the sad turn of events, we must come to terms with the fact that anger, recriminations, self-pity, and blame trading will not take us even an inch away from the harsh outcomes of the elections”.
According to the lawmaker, “In the interest of our party, we call on party faithfuls to cease all internal bickering and media hostilities. Such tendencies are not only capable of further deepening the challenges we currently face, but also wrongly portraying us as confused, frustrated, stranded, and bad losers. We must be careful lest we play into the hands of our opponents.
“The worst tragedy that could befall the PDP is not to have lost the 2015 presidential election or our majority status at the National Assembly or some PDP controlled states to the opposition. The greatest tragedy would be our failure to draw from the lessons embedded in the outcome of the elections”.
While enjoining party faithfuls to remain in the PDP and rebuild it instead of running to already-made shelters, Senator Ekweremadu pointed out that the seeming drawback in the PDP’s fortunes was “an opportunity to reassess and reinvent our party to retake its rightful place”.
The DSP noted that the essence of the Post-election Review Committee was underscored by the need for the party “to understand its past to be able to chart a better future, for unless a man knows where the rain started beating him, he would never know where it stopped”.
He assured that members of the Committee would carry out their assignments to the best of their ability and “without fear or favour”.
He called on members of the party to avail the Committee all necessary information in line with its terms of reference as all shades of opinion will be heard”.
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