PDP crisis: Senate caucus sues for peace

The Senate Caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) reviewed the current crisis rocking the party on Thursday and reached conclusions to rescue it.

Speaking with reporters at the National Assembly after a meeting, Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Abba Moro (Benue-South), said the caucus was determined to see an end to the crisis.

He stated, “After surveying recent happening in the recent times within the party, we have resolved as Senate Caucus of the PDP to set an extended caucus of the party involving some former governors, leaders of the Senate Caucus and some leaders of the party to interface with the various organs of the party with a view to resolving all matters that affect sustainability, survival and existence of the party.

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“PDP Senate Caucus resolved to undertake every effort that is necessary to ensure the survival of the PDP.

“Consequently, the Caucus resolved to advise all party members that have cases in the court to withdraw such cases to make room for a more robust political resolution of the crises in the party, especially the desire to return to constitutional order for the party.”

Moro added that the “PDP remains the only and one formidable opposition in this country. We must be ready as a party to provide an alternative platform to Nigerians for good governance.

“On factionalisation of the party, Moro said “in the strict sense of it, the party is not factionalised, there are only contending tendencies within the party.

This is what we want to bring together because we cannot afford to be drifting apart in this trying moment for the Nigerian nation.

“On personal ambition of members of the party which is affecting the fortunes of the party, Moro said in asking everybody to withdraw cases from the courts, it entails making sacrifices, adding that “personal ambitions can only be achieved when there is a PDP that can offer us the platform to realize personal ambitions.

The lawmaker also said he expected anyone who had the ambition to run for office in the current situation to “sheath the sword and make way for a peaceful resolution in the party, because if there is no party, you cannot realise your ambition on the platform of the party.”

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