Senators pledge support for Mu’azu

A former Bauchi State Governor, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu

SENATORS elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on Wednesday in Kaduna pledged their support for the new national chairman of the party, Adamu Mu’azu, saying they were ready to work with him to reposition the party.

The senators spoke under the aegis of Senators Forum of Nigeria. The Forum is made up of serving and non-serving senators.

The Forum’s Secretary-General, Senator Abubakar Girei, in a statement described the new PDP Chairman as a seasoned politician and a man of integrity with a proven track record of achievements as a former governor of Bauchi State.

The forum noted that with the experience of the new chairman, the party would surely come out of its current challenges.

It then appealed to the chairman to live up to his promise of taking the party to a greater height by reconciling all warring groups in the party.

They said despite the sundry crises rocking the party, the PDP still remained the party to beat in the 2015 general elections.

Another PDP group, PDP Project Reloaded, on Wednesday demanded that the new chairman should swing into action and bring back all aggrieved members of the party, including the five state governors who defected to the All Progressives Congress.

The group also said that the choice of Mu’azu was an act of God “geared towards taking the party and our nation to recover its lost glory.”

National Coordinator of PDP Project Reloaded, Chief Richard Lamai, in a statement in Abuja said Mu’azu’s appointment had brought to the fore the undying conflict resolution mechanisms imbued in the party.

“We call on the national chairman, to, as a matter of urgency, swing into action to bring under the umbrella, all aggrieved PDP members wherever they may be, including the five defected governors of Adamawa, Sokoto, Kano, Kwara and Rivers,” Lamai said.

Meanwhile, Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema has said that PPD has come to stay in the state.

Shema said this in Katsina, while declaring open a two-day conference of the states chairmen of the party.

He said there would be nothing stopping the PDP, because it had rendered selfless services to the  people since the country returned to democracy.