November 06, (THEWILL) – Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Bode George has described the party’s recent convention held in Abuja as a celebration of peace and goodwill.
He said ” The convention of our great party which was held barely a week ago in Abuja has demonstrated so vividly the great possibilities that the Peoples Democratic Party is indeed the party that can break and remove the various afflictions presently halting our democratic process.
” The Convention was a celebration of peace and goodwill. It was one sweeping carnival, full of celebration and gaiety. There was no rancour, no violence, no ill will. And that is the way it should be”.
Speaking further at a ceremony to mark the successful conduct of the party’s convention in Lagos, George congratulates all the newly elected officials of the party, saying
“You are all now the new brave men and women who are now given the privilege and mandate to re-strategise, to restructure, to overhaul and to rebuild the party as one giant behemoth that will champion and lead our nation towards a peaceful, unified, indivisible, democratic journey”.
He said ” it will not be an easy task. Look around you. The nation is distempered in factional largeness. There are divisions everywhere. Bandits and no-gooders roam freely in all corners of our nation
” From the Savannah to the Atlantic, from the Delta to the hills and the forests dark arbiters of ruin and destruction freely plow their dirty trade, sowing discord and destruction everywhere.
” These dark avatars are not interested in the unity of our nation. These evil avatars are indifferent to the happiness of our people. They want to drag us all down towards the grim slope of perdition.
” They must be stopped. They must be halted. They must be confronted with the superiority of our own bright vision”.
George urges the new National Working Committee , NWC of the PDP to return the party to path of sanity, truth, justice, predictability, fairness and equitable balance to our nation.
” That is our ultimate burden. That is our template of a new dawn. That is our primary focus of renewal and a rebirth. Our nation needs peace.
” We must demonstrate to the Nigerian people that we can steer them to a more redeeming course. We must show to the electorate that there is a better way to lead our people to a greater good.
” We must never be detained by the ills of the past. We must never be held back by the encumbrances of ancient feuds”, George said.
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AYO ESAN, has been actively reporting and analyzing political events for different newspapers for over 18 years. He has also successfully covered national and state elections in Nigeria since the inception of this democracy in 1999.
