Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday inaugurated an 18-man committee headed by former Minister of information, Jerry Gana with the sole aim of reconciling warring members of the party ahead of the August 17 proposed national convention in Port Harcourt.
Inaugurating the committee, the Board of Trustees (BoT) Chairman, Sen. Walid Jubrin said that PDP is not dead but very much alive, adding that the party hoped to achieve the objective of reconciling all warring members of the party before it's national convention.
He advised those insinuating that the party is dead to come back and help to build the party, as such insinuation is only in their imagination.
He urged the 18-man committee, which was mandated to submit its report within 7 days, to explore avenues of reaching out to all affected members by strictly adhering to the party's constitutional provisions and ensure that political matters should be resolved out of court in the best interest of all.
He said: "We have therefore decided to set up a special committee with a view to resolving the problem. With the calibre of the people we have chosen to represent the BoT, I am very optimistic that the end of this conflict has come and that we shall all come out smiling very soon, before our convention.
"We want us to agree that this our party will rely on its Constitution and if we do, we must also agree that this party is supreme, this party is above everyone. It is above individuals and therefore we must all put our hands on deck to ensure that we resolve this matter politically.
"BoT is the conscience of this party and I think God will not forgive us if sit down and do nothing. With all the court cases all over the place, about 15 of them. The way to put an end to them, is to allow all the aggrieved persons to come together and agree to take all the cases out of the court and give support to this very important committee that will start work immediately.
"After various consultations that efforts are being made to end the crisis, they should remain resolute and determined, they should not listen to rumors, that this party is gone, it is not gone.
"Leaders who are talking in newspapers that this party is not alive, the party is alive, it only in the imagination of anyone that is saying that this party is dead and that it will not come back. Such people should change their mind. If he comes back to this party, we are ready to receive him."
Speaking on behalf of the members of the committee, Gana said
he has the conviction that not all political matters should be resolved in the courts.
He urge Nigerians for their fervent prayers for the committee to succeed and not to discourage them from performing their assignments for the party.
He also appealed to embattled former National Chairman of the party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff and his supporters to accept the olive branch extended to them by the committee so that the party could make headway as a vibrant opposition party to the ruling government.
Gana said: "We will do our best on this reconciliation. In politics not all issues can be settled in the court room. We should look for political solution. We will do our best to effect reconciliation."
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