By Ikechukwu Okaforadi
A support group of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party Coalition (PDPCO), has asked the Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, to urgently constitute a harmonization drive to address the pressing problems confronting the party with particular reference to mass exodus of members to the All Progressive Congress (APC).
In a letter signed by its National Coordinator, Chief Emeka Kalu, and addressed to Secondus, the PDP Coalition stated that the party leadership needs to take swift action to save the party’s successfully achieved blueprints from hitting the wall due to misguided happenings and other forms of engraved grudges.
The PDP Coalition said, “The manner and speed with which party members decamp to APC after being elected into various political offices is highly alarming and regrettable. That means something is wrong somewhere and we cannot afford to lose all our active members in a twinkle of an eye for reasons which I think are not beyond the party leadership to address.
“Defectors are also admonished to note that it is a mark of betrayal and distrust for them to bite with reckless abandon the hands that had once and in several occasions fed them.
“The APC platform you are moving to is never a sure way of restoring hope and promoting national development nor does it show honour to the electorate that voted you into offices.It depicts signs of having polluted conscience and disregard for the sufferings of helpless Nigerians who are currently in dire need of redemption from the yoke of insecurity,hunger,inequalities and other anomalies”.
It lamented, “We have lost Ebonyi, Cross River and Zamfara states governors to APC,we also saw how four Green Chamber House Members of Zamfara state extraction and 80% of the same state assembly lawmakers followed suit.
“Recall that one of the serving senators of this 9th Assembly elected under the banner of PDP, Delta State had divorced his marriage with our party and remarried APC. As it stands in the Federal House of Representatives, 40% of duly elected legislators under the party umbrella have defected to APC which gives the Party an uttermost concern for a re-think and re-planning”.
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