Secretary of the Board of Trustees, BoT, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ojo Maduekwe, has maintained that there is no faction in the party.
Maduekwe made this clarification on Wednesday following claims by two members of PDP in the House of Representatives that they decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, because there are three factions in the opposition party.
“It is important to clarify unequivocally, that there is no faction in PDP,” Maduekwe said, explaining that “there was only one approved National Convention which took place in Port Harcourt on Saturday 21st of May, 2016, which in accordance with PDP Constitution, approved some far reaching resolutions that had the unanimous support of those who attended the Port Harcourt Convention with subsequent endorsements of another PDP political meeting that took place in Abuja on the same day.”
Maduekwe said further that, “The conveners of the Abuja meeting have since integrated their positions with the structures and resolutions of the Port Harcourt Convention.”
“Subsequent meetings of, first, Board of Trustees members, and secondly, meetings with Governor’s Forum, Leadership of National Assembly and Former Ministers in PDP Government Forum, and a PDP Former Governor’s Forum, held, and decided to work together.
“Aggrieved members are being reconciled across the length and breadth of the nation. The rank and file of the Party have resolved to work together, and PDP has never been stronger than it is now since its entry into the honourable role of a robust and principled opposition.
“Any suggestion of a faction, is at best ill-informed and ignorant, and at worst, is part of a grand plan to decimate the only political platform today, that is ready, experienced and able to honour the nation’s invitation to have a credible opposition party that will hold Government of the day accountable and thereby strengthen and nourish our young democracy,” explained the BoT scribe.”
