National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu has not given up on the return of the five former governors of the party who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking at the north-central solidarity and unity rally of the ruling party in Minna, Niger State, Mu’azu begged the governors to rescind their membership of the opposition and stated the willingness of the party to fully welcome them back home.
He urged Governor of Niger State and Chairman of the Northern States Governors Forum, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu to convince the five governors to return to PDP.
“I can assure them that they will be treated equally. Please come back home. If the Niger State governor, as the leader of the G7, and the Jigawa State governor can remain in the party, I call on Gov. Aliyu to ensure the return of the other five PDP governors who went to APC”, he said.
“Gov. Aliyu saw the light at the end of the tunnel and stayed. Your job has not finished, go back and make sure your people (G5) see the light and get them to come back home to PDP”.
He assured that PDP has been repositioned to meet the yearning of the electorates, and commended them for consistently voting the party to power since the return to democracy in 1999.
In his own address, President Goodluck Jonathan described PDP as the only stable and democratic political party on the continent, saying that since it was founded, PDP has been committed to the delivery of its mandate to Nigerians.
“Since inception PDP has remained the same. We have not changed our name; we have not changed our slogan; we have not changed our logo; we have not changed our colour. We have remained stable”, Jonathan said.
“In fact, we are the most stable and democratic party in Nigeria and in Africa”.
