Jonathan heads PDP reconciliation committee

President Goodluck Jonathan has been saddled with the onerous task of reconciling all aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with a view to once again, build a strong and united party ahead of the 2015 elections.
The chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswil Akpabio who briefed State House correspondents after the late night Caucus meeting of the ruling party held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja said Caucus also discussed the observations raised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) regarding irregularities in the election of some national officers.
“And of course there are issues pertaining to the crisis in the party and we agreed that a high powered team headed by Mr. President should immediately go into massive reconciliation with major stakeholders who may have been aggrieved so that the party can even wax stronger,” he disclosed.
The caucus also constituted a Committee headed by Governor Godswil Akpabio to come up with guidelines that will be presented by the National Working Committee (NWC) for the approval of the National Executive Council (NEC) on Thursday.
He said “The caucus was briefed and immediately set up a special committee to look at the guidelines that will be presented to the NEC for approval on Thursday.
“Members are drawn from the National Assembly which of course include the Senate Leader and also the Whip of the National Assembly, some governors are also there, Minister of Transport, a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT), two members of National Working Committee. And the chairmanship of that body was put under my care as the current chairman of PDP governor’s forum. And I am going to be there with two governors, Theodore Orji of Abia and Ibrahim Shema of Katsina.
“This report must be presented to the NWC by Thursday for approval. So, we look forward to the upcoming meeting. We look forward to his (President) efforts and unification of all our members”.
On speculation that the national chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur may be compelled to step aside, Governor Akpabio said “I believe that he is the national chairman. In fact NEC will look at the certain INEC’s report that some national officers were not properly elected. We will look at that as a party. I don’t see any problem with national chairman”.