The electoral success of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming elections depends largely on its choice of national chairman at the National Convention slated for 9 December, 2017, former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Chief Dubem Onyia, has said.
The ex-minister said if the party gets it wrong at that stage, it should just forget it ever existed.
Onyia said this when he he received a leading aspirant for the office of National Chairman, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, in his country home in Enugu on Thursday.
According to the elder statesman, any attempt to impose any candidate by whatever means, without being pessimistic, will be the end of the party.
He said: “As far as I’m concerned, I will stand against any form of imposition and should allow the people to make their choice.”
Welcoming Daniel to his residence, Onyia thanked him for visiting him at his home, saying the act shows that he (Daniel) is a good politician being a grassroots man who will visit his constituents however remote they are or may be.
Daniel, he said, is a man of great experience, highly courageous, bold and imbued with political will, adding: “He has the capacity.
“He is someone you see and respect and so the most qualified for the position.”
Onyia also sounded a note of warning that those who were responsible for the failure of the PDP in the past should never be allowed to destabilise it again.
Power, he stressed, should return to the people and by the time that is done and with a correct leadership, the PDP and Nigeria will move forward.
In his response Daniel also thanked Onyia for his kind words of encouragement and insightful thoughts.
Having been to nearly all the nook and cranny of the nation during the campaign tour, Daniel said he has discovered that there are some missing values in both human and material resources, which we have failed to annexe as a nation, but with the support and encouragement of the likes Onyia, who he described as one of the leading lights in Nigeria, God will guide PDP to make the right choice and bring power back to the people.
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