President
Goodluck Jonathan has told the National Working Committee, NWC, of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that he would return stronger to help
rebuild the party after taking a short break outside the country with
his family.
The President urged the leadership,
stakeholders, leaders, elders and members of the PDP to put behind them
the defeat the party suffered during the March 28 presidential election
where it lost to the All Progressives Congress, APC, after 16 years in
power and build the party for future elections.
President
Jonathan, who did not actually blame the leadership of the party for
his loss at the election, was said to have heaped the blames on some of
his very close aides, just as he told the NWC members that a Special
Adviser from the North did not even vote on the day of Presidential
election.
It was gathered that President Jonathan, who thanked
members of the NWC for their support, disclosed to them that soon after
the May 29 handover of government, he would travel outside the country
with his family, rest, recuperate and then come back to politics later,
but not immediately.
President
Jonathan who also warned the leadership of the party against
apportioning blames asked them to ensure that the PDP does not
disintegrate because of March and April elections.
He said from
all indications, the PDP would bounce back against the backdrop that
there would be the problem of ego where three persons will be serving as
Presidents of the country with only one elected.
The Wednesday
meeting was held behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa with the
aim of ending the lingering crisis in the party after the general
elections where some PDP governors, party leaders, stakeholders and
members have been calling for the sack of the present National Working
Committee, NWC, under Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu.
The meeting, the
first of its kind since the PDP lost the presidency after 16 years of
leadership to the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives
Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, was a postmortem on the
election, to discuss the way forward for the party especially the move
to heal the inflicted wounds, to restrategise as well as reposition the
party.
It was also gathered that those present at the meeting
used the opportunity to ruminate on the elections and the loss where
they wished that the PDP would have won the election.
The ruling
PDP, which controlled the Presidency, the Senate and the House of
Representatives for 16 years since 1999, did not only suffer
Presidential defeat, but it lost in its traditional states of Plateau;
Niger; Kaduna; Benue; Bauchi and Jigawa.
Credit: Henry Umoru/Vanguard
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