Ogbulafor still wants NWC to resign

by Ranti Joseph

Still on the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic party (PDP), someone is still not contented with only the national chairman, Adamu Mu’azu and the chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) Tony Anenih but still wants the whole National Working Committee (NWC) to resign.

A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Vincent Ogbulafor, has called on the members of the NWC to resign voluntarily from the committee.

Speaking in Umuahia on Sunday, Ogbulafor said the members should take the path of honor by bowing out of the committee adding that the members should resign in the interest of the party and pave the way for fresh hands to pull the party out of the woods and reposition it ahead of the 2019 general elections.
According to ThisDay, he described the resignation of the National Chairman and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the party, Mu’azu and Aninih, respectively, as a welcome development.

“I feel happy about their resignation because I feel they did so in the interest of the party. So, I feel it is better for all the committee members to voluntarily resign if they love the party and want it to survive,’’ he said.

Ogbulafor further urged the committee to accept responsibility for the party’s woeful performance in the 2015 general elections and the failure to deliver President Goodluck Jonathan for a second tenure.

“The party played the politics of hate and exclusion,’’ he said, adding that “past national chairmen were completely excluded and were never invited to offer our own ideas on how to deliver Jonathan.

“When I was the chairman, I controlled 28 states and a majority in the National Assembly and also won additional four states for the party. Some of us performed better and have good ideas on how to keep PDP in power for as long as I predicted,’’ he said.

Ogbulafor, who had earlier predicted that PDP would rule Nigeria for uninterrupted 60 years, said the feat was possible had the party sustained the line-up.

“I made the prediction in clear conscience and realization that it was achievable, given that PDP controlled 28 states, majority in the National Assembly and local government administration. So, there is nothing that could have stopped PDP if we were able to control the line-up,” he added.

Ogbulafor blamed the woes befalling the party on the emergence of a ‘reform group,’ saying that the group created factions within it, also the incessant change in the leadership, with five chairmen so far produced within a space of five years after his exit was counter-productive.

“Since I left office, PDP has changed its chairmen five times. This is a pointer that all is not well with the party. This is why I am calling on the NWC members to quit without compulsion to pave the way for fresh blood that will bring vibrancy and help to move the party forward,’’ he said

Ogbulafor said that the incoming governors, who would be the financiers of the party, would also wish to inherit a fresh NWC, populated by fresh people.
He said he was not planning to leave the party in view of the current challenges.

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