The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has said he would make sacrifices to ensure that peace returned to the party, stressing that the PDP has a great future.
Sheriff who was declared last Friday, as the party’s authentic chairman by the Port Harcourt Court division of the Appeal Court, told newsmen on Saturday, in Abuja, that the judgement does not call for merriment or mourning but required all hands "to rekindle the winning fire in the PDP."
He said the APC is campaigning for the PDP, assuring that the PDP would come back to its position of 1999. He said all leaders of the PDP would be consulted between now and next week in order to "heal all injuries."
Sheriff, a former governor of Borno State said that people were already looking forward to the return of the "glorious days of a PDP government, when the net worth of life was worthy of human dignity."
He said he would get an order for the party’s national secretariat to be opened for the party to resume official activities and assured that within the shortest possible time he would organize a successful national convention where new leaders would emerge.
"Let us be certain about this, no person or group, no matter how powerful can do it alone. We need all hands on deck to rekindle the winning fire in PDP. Divided, we can achieve little or nothing but united, we can stand like the
impregnable Glam Rock and no weapon fashioned against us can prevail.
"I see a very great future for our great party, PDP. Our people are already looking forward to the return of the
glorious days of a PDP government, when the net worth of life was worthy of human dignity.
"We cannot afford to disappoint the teeming majority of Nigerians who are looking up to as at this despondent hour of our politics and economy. How can we meet their expectations if we remain fragmented and disunited? We must therefore, rise to the occasion and come together as one strong united family."
He added: "I see the judgement as a golden opportunity for a sincere renewal of our sense of unity and fraternity. No
doubt, we have come a long and tortuous road, wherein some of us have been bruised or outrightly wounded and are hurting. I understand also, that for some of us, our ego has been agitated.
"Yet, I dare say that we can put all of that behind us and come together with one accord and move our great party, the
PDP forward. "It is not about me or any ambition, it is about the survival of our great party on this score. I can assure
you that I shall be willing to make any sacrifice that can guarantee peace in our party."
