National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has said that Nigeria is bleeding and in dire need of good leaders in strategic positions to halt the slide.
Secondus specifically warned on the need for the country to pay careful attention to the alarm from the World Bank on Nigeria’s economy going insolvent unless urgent steps are taken to address the situation.
The PDP National Chairman also said that the country is currently in desperate need of persons with quality and patriotism in their vein as leaders to lift it out of the wood.
Prince Secondus, who stated these when he handed over governorship nomination certificate of the Party to the two candidates for November 16, 2019 elections in Bayelsa and Kogi states, said the citizens are gripped in fear.
In his words; “Everyone in this country today is leaving in fear of either hunger or insecurity and the situation calls for all hands to be on deck.”
A statement from the National Chairman’s media office signed by Ike Abonyi, quoted Prince Secondus as having charged the gubernatorial flag bearers in Bayelsa and Kogi states to see their victory as an invitation to serve and not to be masters over their people.
He also admonished them to see their victory in the spirit of no victor no vanquished and strive to bring all PDP families together for the challenges ahead which are enormous.
Secondus said; “Not yet time for celebration, bring your people together and get to work immediately as time is of essence. A totally reformed PDP does not believe in winner takes all, moreover the work ahead requires all hands to be pulled together in the two states to achieve the inevitable victory.
“The transparency that greeted your primaries is a continuation of our vow to have internal democracy working in our party which was demonstrated to the World last October at the Presidential primaries when PDP conducted the freest and fairest ever Presidential primaries in the nation’s political history,” he said.
Earlier, the National Organizing Secretary of the party whose office supervised the contest, Col Austin Akobundu (rtd), presented the two candidates and declared the process that produced them clean and transparent.
The two candidates, Senator Douye Diri of Bayelsa and Engr Musa Wada of Kogi in their acceptance remark promised to work hard to carry PDP as a family to victory by November 16.
Engr Musa Wada of Kogi state noted that the APC incumbent government in the state has made it the violent capital of Nigeria but said that while they hope to win in a peaceful manner, it’s also necessary to underscore that nobody has monopoly of violence.
The ceremony at the party’s National Secretariat at Wadata House, Abuja was attended by top PDP leaders from the two states.
