PRESIDENT
Goodluck Jonathan has told the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, that he would return stronger to help rebuild the party
after taking a short break outside the country with his family.
The
President urged the leadership, stakeholders, leaders, elders and members of
the PDP to put behind them the defeat the party suffered during the March 28
presidential election where it lost to
the All Progressives Congress, APC,
after 16 years in power and build the party for future elections.
President
Jonathan, who did not actually blame the leadership of the party for his loss
at the election, was said to have heaped the blames on some of his very close
aides, just as he told the NWC members that a Special Adviser from the North
did not even vote on the day of Presidential election.
Vanguard
gathered that President Jonathan, who thanked members of the NWC for their
support, disclosed to them that soon after the May 29 handover of government,
he would travel outside the country with his family, rest, recuperate and then
come back to politics later, but not immediately.
President
Jonathan who also warned the leadership of the party against apportioning
blames asked them to ensure that the PDP does not disintegrate because of March
and April elections.
PDP will
bounce back
He said
from all indications, the PDP would bounce back against the backdrop that there
would be the problem of ego where three persons will be serving as Presidents
of the country with only one elected.
The
Wednesday meeting was held behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa with
the aim of ending the lingering crisis in the party after the general elections
where some PDP governors, party leaders, stakeholders and members have been calling
for the sack of the present National Working Committee, NWC, under Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu.
The
meeting, the first of its kind since the PDP lost the presidency after 16 years
of leadership to the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,
APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, was a postmortem on the election, to
discuss the way forward for the party especially the move to heal the inflicted
wounds, to restrategise as well as reposition the party.
It was
also gathered that those present at the meeting used the opportunity to
ruminate on the elections and the loss where they wished that the PDP would
have won the election.
The
ruling PDP, which controlled the Presidency, the Senate and the House of
Representatives for 16 years since 1999, did not only suffer Presidential
defeat, but it lost in its traditional states of Plateau; Niger; Kaduna; Benue;
Bauchi and Jigawa.
Source: Vanguard
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