The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says new reforms and rebranding efforts had returned to the party so that it would represent aspirations of all Nigerians, ahead of the 2019 general elections. The party gave the assurance in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan in Abuja on Friday.
Ologbondiyan said that all issues raised by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in respect of the party, have been extensively addressed by its newly refocused and re-positioned leadership. According to him, these reforms include the full entrenchment of internal democracy, all-inclusiveness and re-engineered mechanisms for good governance.
“In the last five months since the coming of the new leadership under Prince Uche Secondus, the PDP had undergone extensive re-engineering in direct responses to suggestions, criticisms and wide range of constructive counsels from Nigerians across board.“The transparent processes leading to the peaceful conduct of an open, credible, free and fair governorship primary in Ekiti State.
“This, at a time when other political parties are enmeshed in impunity-induced crisis and violence, is a loud testimony of the democratic credentials and principles of the repositioned PDP. Ologbondiyan added that the reconciliatory efforts of the Governor Seriake Dickson-led committee, and other efforts at rebuilding the party through its contact and integration committee, were already yielding results.
He also said that such efforts were manifested in the crowd that graced PDP rallies in Jigawa, Katsina and Osun states. Ologbondiyan said that PDP’s initiative towards the nation’s economic recovery had commenced with the development of a robust and all-inclusive blueprint that would reopen the “currently locked-down economic space.”
