PDP needs reconciliation, reformation, rebuilding – Tukur

MAY 7, 2012 BY OLUSOLA FABIYI 

PDP NAtional Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur
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National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamaga Tukur, says for the PDP to retain its dominance, it must aim for unity.

Tukur said when he received Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda in his office in Abuja on Sunday that the members of the PDP National Working Committee should embark on reconciliation, reformation and rebuilding moves to make the party great again.

On the issue of reconciliation, he promised that he would recouncil various groups and individuals with one another to bring back those who had left the party.

He said, “If we can achieve these three important things, (reconciliation, reformation, rebuildings) peace will return, security will come and investment will come, so that we will be able to build our party, bring economic development, help our country to really achieve the quality of life we all aspire.”

Yuguda denied any form of crisis or rancour in the state PDP, insisting that “we are one family.

He said, “We have enjoyed relative peace in our state and since 2009, we have never had a major incidence of insecurity except media hype about attacks here and there, which never existed.

“Politically, the entire Bauchi State today is PDP. The opposition tried to create havoc during the presidential and other elections but they have remained silent because they have tried as much as possible to wrestle the mandate of leadership from us, taking us to tribunal up to Supreme Court and we won in all cases.

“The gap between me and the Congress for Progressive Change candidate during the election was almost 600,000. That is the kind of politics that we have, we are truly PDP and PDP is really gaining a lot more ground.

“Our party in Bauchi works as a family; we are a team, any person that is not in our team is not with you that we assure you; and if he (the person) comes to you he is trying to destroy us and by extension trying to destroy you, we speak with one voice.”

He added, “We are here not only to pay a courtesy visit on you and members of your contract executive, but to wish you well and to pray for you and confirm to you and assure you that our loyalty to you as our party chairman is unalloyed.”

SOURCE: The Punch - Nigeria's Most Widely Read Newspaper 7 May 2012.