Senators on
the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the upper chamber
of the National Assembly have thrown their weight behind zoning the
position of the National Chairman of the party to the North.
Consequently,
they said the present National Chairman, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff,
should be allowed to remain in office as he has shown capacity to steer
the ship of the party towards a successful outing in 2019.
The senators
who spoke in Abuja through Senator Hope Uzodimma (Imo West) said their
position was for fairness and continuity as the last holder of the
position, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu did not complete his tenure before he
resigned.
Uzodimma
said what the PDP needs at this time of its declining popularity was a
person like “Sheriff, an astute politician with a vast experience in
grassroots politics, tenacity, resilience and the financial muscle to
assist the party in its repositioning drive, working with stakeholders.”
“What is
important in PDP now is a collective rescue mission with all hands on
deck towards the actualisation and rejuvenation of the party to regain
its lost glory of national importance and dominance,” he added.
Uzodimma who
is the Chairman, Senate Committee on Aviation, said that since the
emergence of the new PDP National Chairman, the party has been focused
and winning its re-run elections. Besides, he said: “Sheriff has been
uniting all factions in the party and has entrenched an open door policy
where all party members have an unfettered access to him to handle all
party issues.”
The party
stalwart stated that the onerous task of preparing the party for the
task ahead rests mainly on the leadership, especially the national
chairman, adding that Modu Sheriff must, therefore, be supported to
bring everybody together through holistic and pragmatic reconciliation
and mobilisation of party members across the country.
“It is only
through a clean, clear and steadfast spirit of unity and oneness that
the task ahead can be successful, hence the need to support the new
chairman in this regard’, he stated.
Asked if the
decision of the PDP to zone the presidential candidate to the North
would affect the position of Sheriff as the National Chairman, Uzodimma
said “it will not because the next two years will be used to revive and
re-position PDP, thereafter, a mid-term convention will produce the
National Executive Council that will take the party to elections during
which a presidential candidate from the North will emerge.
“Our
interest is for the PDP to win elections, so merit should be the driving
criteria for the party’s decision-making,” he said.
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