- The party announced this at its zonal meeting in Enugu, stating it was part of its efforts to regain its zone position.
- The Governor further said that it was time for the party to begin to craft a strategy on how it could get back to that “pole position” that they had always occupied.
The South-East zone of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, claims to have started the process of bringing back its disgruntled members who left to join other political organisations.
The party made this statement at its zonal meeting in Enugu, highlighting the fact that the action was taken as part of its attempts to retake the zone.
It expressed the expectation that the project would boost the country’s political and historical development by helping to strengthen its support base.
In a speech, Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State urged party leaders and faithful in the region to rise to the task of recovering its lost ground and rebuilding the party to its pre-eminent position in the years past.
Mbah, who is the leader of the party in the zone, said there was a need to rejig the party’s financial, administrative and operational strategies.
He expressed a strong conviction that the party would rise again in the zone.
Mbah said, “As the National Vice Chairman South-East rightly observed, we have shed a lot of weight.
“Today, when you look at other parties, whether it is Labour Party, All Progressives Congress or the New Nigeria Peoples Party, and so on, you are actually talking about PDP members.
“But providence has placed a lot on us in the history of the party that we now have to steer the affairs of the party and pull it back to its former glory, to that pre-eminent position we have always held in the historical and political development of this country.
“And in doing that, we have a couple of areas we have to look into, such as financial, administrative, and operational strategies to bring us back to pre-eminence.”
The Governor further said that it was time for the party to begin to craft a strategy on how it could get back to that “pole position” that they had always occupied.
“It means we have to first of all consolidate our support base as a party, and now reach out to our brothers and sisters, who may have felt aggrieved for one reason or the other and left the party to see how we can bring them back,” he said.