PDP Calls For State Of Emergency |The Source

By Adesina Soyooye

Not surprisingly, the main opposition Party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has joined the chorus In Nigeria for  the declaration of an emergency on insecurity by President Muhammadu Buhari.

This followed the unprecedented upsurge in insecurity, across the country. No region is spared. No zone is spared. Nigerians are killed in scores everyday. No place is safe. Military barracks. Military installations.Police barracks. Police stations, Divisions, State Commands, Zones. Farms. Schools. Homes. Churches. Markets. Roads. Rivers. Prisons Even the skyline is threatened.

Everybody is worried.

Those who felt that a change of guard of the Service Heads would do the magic, has since discovered    that 12 and a dozen are the same.

A couple of days ago,Senator Smart Adeyemi, APC, Kogi, wept on the Senate floor while expressing his frustration and helplessness over the state of insecurity in Nigeria.

And this other day, the House of Representatives asked the President to declare a state of emergency on insecurity.

President Muhammadu Buhari, is perhaps, not unaware of the damage the situation has done to his Government. Speaking with the visiting United States of America’s Secretary of State,  President Buhari asked for help.

On Thursday, the PDP  followed after an emergency  meeting of its National Executive Committee.

In a Cmmunique after the meeting, signed by the Party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the PDP said it was heartbroken at the state of insecurity in the country, and decried the unnecessary bloodshed and unprecedented loss of innocent lives.

Following the full text of the Communique.

Communique Issued At The End of the Emergency Meeting of The National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Today, Thursday, April 29, 2021.

The National Executive Committee (NEC) after its emergency meeting today, Thursday, April 29, 2021, considered crucial issues regarding the programs of the party as well as extensively reviewed the state of the nation, especially the escalated insecurity engulfing all parts of our country and resolved as follow:

NEC lamented the heightened insecurity pervading all parts of our nation due primarily to the misrule of President Muhammed Buhari and All Progressives Congress (APC) as well as their failure to decisively tackle the menace of terrorism, banditry, kidnapping, bloodletting and acts of violence in our country.

NEC urged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately declare a national state of emergency on security.

NEC also urged President Buhari to, without delay, convoke a national conference on Security so as to galvanize ideas and options to tackle insecurity in our country.

NEC further commended the efforts of governors, senators, House of Representatives members and other officials elected on the platform of the PDP in forcefully seeking solutions to the spate of insecurity in our country.

With regard to the programmes of our party, NEC expressed satisfaction with the efforts of the NWC in preparation for the November 6 Governorship election in Anambra state and asserted its readiness to do everything possible, within the confines of the law, to win the election.

NEC also received reports on the e-registration of members as the NWC announced the membership of the committee set up to conduct the exercise.

The Edo State Governor, Chief Godwin Obaseki has been appointed to serve as Chairman, while his Adamawa State counterpart, Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri, is appointed to serve as Deputy Chairman.

The statutory members of the committee are the National Organizing Secretary, National Treasurer, National Financial Secretary, Deputy National Secretary and the National Publicity Secretary.

Further nominations will be taken from the Board of Trustees, the National Assembly, Forum of State Chairmen as well as the youth and women demography of our Party.

NEC unanimously passed a vote of confidence on the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus as well as the member of the National Working Committee (NWC).

NEC further cautioned party members at all levels to be wary of agents of distractions and division while praising the effort of the NWC for being focused and purpose driven in piloting the affairs of the party.