PDP Strategises For 2019, Prays For President Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee has urged the party to return
to its traditional direct primaries for nominating candidates for elections.
PDP
Chairman Sen. Ahmed Makarfi
PDP Chairman Sen. Ahmed Makarfi
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PDP Chairman Sen. Ahmed Makarfi
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Chairman of the committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, made the call while submitting the
committee’s report to the Chairman of the party’s National Caretaker Committee,
Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Gana said that “direct primary
system’’, recommended by the committee, would promote free, fair and credible
election of candidates for elective offices.
He said that the committee had
also provided guidelines for the primaries as well as regulations for improved
indirect system in case the party was forced by circumstances to adopt that
system. “To facilitate the use of direct primaries as recommended, the party
must take immediate steps to compile and maintain an authentic register of
party membership throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria,’’ he said. PDP
Chairman Sen. Ahmed Makarfi.
The committee was inaugurated on Nov. 10, 2016 to
within 90 days, come up with recommendation that would make the party stronger
and better, and able to regain power in 2019. Gana said that the committee also
recommended that adherence to the principles of zoning and rotation of political
offices, “guided by the principles of justice, equity, fairness, inclusiveness
and balanced representation’’.
He said that the report contained detail
recommendations on the proposed review and amendment of the party’s
constitution and manifesto, adding it also presented world-class best practices
of good governance for adoption. “We are strongly of the view that governments
elected on the platform of the PDP must govern so excellently as to produce
genuine development to up-light the lives of our people.’’
The former
Information Minister disclosed that the initial contacts of the committee had
yielded positive responses from seven people-focused and social democratic
parties which would meet in Abuja. “This is nothing to do with the rumoured
Mega Party, but a separate and highly principled initiative of the PDP.
“Our
desire is to have all genuine democratic and friends of the people to flow
together and provide a fresh and trustworthy leadership to promote and ensure
people-friendly process of national development.’’
Gana added that the
committee also included strategy for re-branding and marketing of the PDP
nationwide and urged party leaders to promptly and effectively implement the
proposals “with tremendous passion’’.
Receiving the report, Makarfi described
it as “excellent work’’ that could not be rejected by any organ of the party.
He said that the report was part of the activity of the caretaker committee
towards moving the party forward. Makarfi said the party leadership would
forward the report to the party’s organs for critical analysis as well as due
process in implementing the recommendations. “We are going to work to make sure
that we reconnect to Nigerians.
“This report has laid the path for correcting
those past mistakes,’’ Makarfi added. According to him, though PDP had many
remarkable achievements in its16 years of ruling the country, the party members
regret and apologise to the electorate for its past mistakes.
He assured that
the party will stand for institutional change and market it to Nigerians ahead
of 2019 elections. The chairman said that the country would never get it right
if its public institutions continued to serve the government and people in
office.
“They are public institutions that must serve Nigeria and Nigerians.
“If we don’t do away with this old practice, corruption, arrogance in office
and all form of nonsense in government will continue.
We must free them from
selfish control by public office holders,’’ Makarfi said. He explained that the
caretaker committee had also decided that chairmen and secretaries of syndicate
groups would form a committee to analyse, appraise and implement the
recommendations in the report. The party offered prayers for quick recovery of
President Muhammadu Buhari and for his safe return to the country.
The Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee has urged
the party to return to its traditional direct primaries for nominating
candidates for elections.
Chairman of the committee, Prof. Jerry Gana, made the call while
submitting the committee’s report to the Chairman of the party’s
National Caretaker Committee, Sen. Ahmed Makarfi, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Gana said that “direct primary system’’, recommended by the committee,
would promote free, fair and credible election of candidates for
elective offices.
He said that the committee had also provided guidelines for the
primaries as well as regulations for improved indirect system in case
the party was forced by circumstances to adopt that system.
“To facilitate the use of direct primaries as recommended, the party
must take immediate steps to compile and maintain an authentic register
of party membership throughout the Federal Republic of Nigeria,’’ he
said.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/02/pdp-strategises-2019-prays-president-buhari/
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