Some prominent members of the Peoples Democratic Party on Thursday told the party’s new National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, to use his position to promote nation-building.
The party’s chieftains, including Ambassador Musliu Obanikoro, Chief Oluseye Ogunlewe and a former Acting National Secretary of the party, Dr. Remi Akitoye, made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Mu’azu, a former Governor of Bauchi State, on January 21 replaced Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, who resigned in the wake of the crisis that engulfed the party.
According to Ogunlewe, many Nigerians do not have access to President Goodluck Jonathan but they can have access to the party.
He said: “The national chairman should not just stay in Abuja.
“He should go on a tour of the states to sit and discuss with members of the party and even the general public in those states.
“Moving PDP forward remains a collective effort of all members and assessing the feelings of Nigerians on the performance of the party and what their desires are will be a welcome development.”
On his part, Obanikoro urged the new national chairman to galvanise the party towards success at the polls in 2015.
“It is my fervent belief that Mu’azu will unite the PDP, arrest the crisis and the challenge of disintegration.”
Also speaking, Akitoye urged Mu’azu to restructure the PDP and ensure that PDP members were united.
“Mu’azu has a big job ahead of him. He has to energise and work for the unity of all members of the party,” the former acting national secretary of the PDP said.
He described Mu’azu as a man of vision and a dynamic person, who would take the party to the desired level.
The immediate past Chairman of the PDP in Lagos State, Chief Setonji Koshoedo, charged the new chairman to put together a team that would assist him in realising his visions for the party.
“Mu’azu should start a change process, define his visions and make interventions that will make them realisable,” Koshoedo said.
Chief Qudus Folami, former Adviser to ECOWAS on Politics and Economic Affairs, urged the new leadership of PDP to resolve leadership issues in the PDP in the South West.
Folami said: “South West is the headquarters of the opposition party.
“The PDP cannot afford to treat it with kid gloves.”
According to him, a lot of the issues that have caused the crisis in the South West PDP had not received the required attention from the national body of the party.
The Publicity Secretary of the PDP in Lagos State, Taofik Gani, called on Mu’azu to give deserving attention to the South West PDP.
Gani said: “Mu’azu should use his wealth of experience to set up a South West Executive for the PDP.
“We are happy that Mu’azu is a bridge-builder and will not fail in ensuring the continuity of internal democracy in our great party.”
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