PDP initiates search party for Messiah

Feeling the weight of what it called APC’s persecution of the opposition, the PDP higher-ups met weekend to shop for a national chairman that can breast the challenge and lead the party to greater heights.

Participants at the meeting held at the Eko Hotel on Sunday said the party will establish a committee that will work with Gov. Segun Mimiko, who is the chairman of the PDP Governors Forum, to search across the nation for that credible party man that will lead the opposition.

It is the choice of the chairman that will define the zoning of other national positions.

The meeting also concluded on setting up another committee that will coordinate the PDP response to the perceived attack of the ruling APC.

“In all democracies, viable opposition is recommended for stability and growth of society, but the APC in is seeking to decimate opposition so foist its dictatorial agenda of installing one party state without economic direction and where the rights of the citizens are trampled under-foot,” PDP’s National Secretary Prof. Adewale Oladipo said in a statement on Sunday.

He noted the APC has been using its anti-corruption fight harass its perceived enemies in the opposition, and thereby invited the international community and democracy watchers to note tha rights abuse going on.

Oladipo added the PDP isn’t against the anti-corruption crusade of the APC, but the fight is one-sided because there are some corrupt elements in the ruling party, too, and President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to touch them.

The meeting, led by Dep. Sen. President Ike Ekweremadu, had in attendance the big noises in the opposition. Among them were all the PDP governors, Hon. Leo Ogor, leading the reps, among others.

Cross Rivers former governor, Donald Duke, who had been hibernating for eight years, also turned up.