Africa-Press – Nigeria. A member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, BoT, Ejiofor Onyia, says the party’s convention must hold to elect new leaders and restore its former glory.
Onyia made this statement on Wednesday while responding to questions in an interview on ‘Prime Time’, a programme on Arise Television monitored .
DAILY POST reports that the PDP has in recent time been ravaged by various internal political wranglings.
The party is split into two factions- one loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike and chaired by Abdulrahman Mohammed, while the second is chaired by Umar Damagum.
“The convention will hold. Remember when we were having the issue of Secretaryship and there were court cases from all corners until the Supreme Court ruled that the courts were overstepping their bounds that they have no business in the internal affairs of the party.
“We should predicate our actions on the Supreme Court’s decision. The convention holds this weekend. We are heading to the convention, which holds this weekend in Ibadan.
“We will elect the next set of executives who will take over leadership and restore the PDP to its former glory,” he said.
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