Sunday, 23 June 2013
Yesterday, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, received over 5,000 decampees from the ruling Congress for Progressive Change and other political parties in the state.
The ruling party received the decampees led by the state’s former deputy governor, Professor Onje Gyewado in a colourful ceremony held at the state secretariat of the party in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital.
Tukur regretted that PDP conceded defeat to the CPC in the 2011 general elections, vowing that the PDP would leave no stone unturned in making sure it recaptures the state in the forthcoming elections.
Speaking earlier, the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku said the PDP has learnt bitter lessons from the last elections and has now come out stronger and ready to wrest power from the CPC.
Maku who stressed that the UmaruTanko Almakura-led CPC government has failed to impact positively on the lives of the people of Nasarawa State, added that most of the projects the CPC administration in the state is laying claims to are PDP projects which were at their various stages of completion.
The immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Aliyu Akwe Doma who was on hand to receive the national chairman, denied insinuations making rounds that the PDP in the state was factionalised. He, however, noted that some members of the party were aggrieved because they could not have things done their way and called on them to sheath their swords and join hands in fighting for the common goal of the PDP.
Professor Gyewado, speaking on behalf of the decampees, regretted that he abandoned the party as a founding member in the state, noting that having gone round other political parties they have realised that PDP is the only party that bears the interest of the people at heart.
