The Peoples Democratic Party on Tuesday in Abuja named the Delta State Governor, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, as the Chairman of Saturday’s non-election convention of the party.
The committee was immediately inaugurated by the Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi.
Also inaugurated were the Disciplinary Committee and Reconciliation Committee, which Makarfi said were standing committees.
He announced Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State and Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State as co-chairmen of the reconciliation committee, and charged them to reconcile all aggrieved members of the party, especially those that had left.
Makarfi said: “The term of reference for the committee is to bring back to the fold, aggrieved members of the party, especially the G34 members to come back to PDP.”
He said that the reconciliation should be limited to pre-2015 general elections.
He added that the committee could in the course of its assignment; woo new people to the party.
Makarfi said the functions of the Disciplinary Committee, to be headed by Chief Tom Ikimi, were already stipulated in the party’s Constitution.
He said the activities of the Ikimi committee should extend to those who took the party’s matters to court without exploring internal mechanisms for arbitration.
In his response, Okowa pledged that his committee would give party a worthy non-election convention on Saturday.
Okowa said: “I believe that the convention, though not elective, will be the first occasion to showcase PDP after the Supreme Court judgment.
“We are going to organise a convention that will be peaceful and successful.”
On his part, Ikimi said the disciplinary committee would work closely with reconciliation committee to ensure that defected members of PDP returned.
He urged members to be disciplined to avoid future litigations.
Ikimi said: “Once there is discipline, there will be no need to go to court.”
He advised that in re-building the party, returning members should be welcomed back with opened minds.
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