…As Uduaghan, Utuama, others Boycott Congress
The newly elected chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Delta State, Barr. Kingsley Esiso Wednesday begged all decamped members of the party to return in the next three months without sanctions.
Loading ...This is coming on heels of prominent members including the immediate past governor of the state, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan among other big wings of the party which spells doom to the party comes 2019.
Barr. Esiso after receiving the mantle noted that the party had been victorious in the state, adding that his executives would ensure the continuity of the party in the state government, “And in 2019, we want to return the President of PDP extraction to Aso Rock, Abuja.
“Therefore, as the state chairman, I want to say that those who left this party for one reason or the other to seek greener pasture, I give them three months to come back to the party without sanctions. “My door is open to welcome them back as a family which they belong, the family of PDP and I pray that they all come back willingly and we will accept them,”Esiso said.
He said though after three months the doors would still be open to the returnees, this could attract some sanctions, stressing that the party in the next few days would set up a committee to handle issues concerning those who would return and for new members to the party.
He lauded the people for voting them into office in a most transparent, peaceful and acceptable PDP congress in the state just as Uzor advised the new executives to stand firm, be impartial and to uphold the norms of the party.
“My advice to the state chairman and his executives is that they should be firm, no preferential treatment and in doing this we shall move this party forward and manage the state properly, “he said.
Meanwhile, the crises in the Delta State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party deepen with the absence of Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, the former state governor at yesterday (10th May, 2016) state congress held in Asaba.
Also absent was the former Deputy Governor the state Prof Amos Utuama giving further speculation to their rumoured defection to the All Progressive Congress (APC), as there was no official explanation given for their absence.
In the highly boycotted congress by big wigs of the party, Barr. Esiso, a stooge of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa was returned unopposed as the chairman of 27- member executive.
