As reconciliation endeavours within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) go on across the country, the Oyo State Lead Representative, Seyi Makinde, has encouraged the national leadership of the party to take on a comprehensive approach in executing the recommendations of its reconciliation committee.
The Lead Representative lauded the national body of the party for setting up such a reconciliation committee made up of highly respected leaders of PDP with broad political experiences within and outside of government.
He communicated good faith that the reconciliation committee with former two-term Lead Representatives of Osun and Gombe states, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, and Ibrahim Dankwambo as the Chairman and Secretary of the committee respectively and other well-known personalities, would emerge with recommendations that would assist the party reinforcing it and reposition it for future political races.
Speaking at the PDP National Reconciliation Committee’s (NRC) press briefing held at the Agodi Government House in Ibadan over the finalization of its assignment in Southwest, the Oyo State Deputy Lead Representative, Bayo Lawal, who represented Makinde, stressed the importance of unity and aggregate exertion within the party to accomplish the primary goal of the committee.
The deputy Lead Representative, who noted that problems affecting the party differ from state to state, focused on the need for the national body of the party to guarantee that the outcome of the committee’s task was duly and comprehensively executed to avoid any misfortune in the endeavours to reposition the party ahead of future political races.
Earlier in his address, Oyinlola revealed that the mandate of the committee and the essence of its assignment in the South-West was to look into the health of the party, draw in stakeholders with the end goal of reconciling aggrieved members, and strengthen the party’s cohesiveness.
Oyinlola criticized what has become of the party’s fortune as of late while regretting how internal wrangling and what was depicted as primordial opinions have antagonistically impacted the party’s growth regardless of its wide reach and presence across the 774 local government areas in the nation.
He, in any case, communicated optimism over the reconciliation move as elders of the PDP in the state consented to sitting together for the first time in a long while to resolve their disparities.
