President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, immediately after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting, met for several hours with the chieftains of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), some Ministers and members of the National Assembly.
The meeting which had the party’s chairman; Governor Ibrahim Dankwabo of Gombe State; Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF; ministers and other party heavy-weights, passed a vote of confidence on President Jonathan’s Economic Transformation Agenda.
Speaking with journalists after the meeting, National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, who informed that the meeting was part of the regular interface between the party’s Executive and the Legislature, listed some decisions reached at the meeting to include the need for a strategy to promote and publicize the successes of the present administration’s Transformation Agenda and to ensure that PDP continues to gain the confidence of Nigerians.
Hear him: “There was a meeting between FEC members, the NWC members and the leadership of the National Assembly PDP caucus. The meeting discussed a lot of issues, the most important issues being the interface between the executive, the legislature and the party.”
Metuh noted that PDP being “the only party that promotes the unity and progress of Nigeria that covers all national interest, we want to ensure that our people will continue to have faith in the party.” He announced the setting up of “a small committee to continue to dialogue and promote these ideals.”
The PDP spokesman also pointed out that key issues such as the Adamawa governorship election was for the party’s NWC to deliberate, saying “this body is known to the constitution of the party to discuss such matters.”
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