The Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has officially handed over the assets of the party secretariat to the Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee.
The development comes a week after the police opened the secretariat of the opposition party after a nine-day siege.
Recall that the opposition party had been embroiled in crisis since May 21 after three factions emerged from its Port Harcourt and Abuja Conventions respectively.
However, at a brief handing over ceremony on Tuesday, the party called for dialogue and apologised to aggrieved party members. Former Deputy Chairman of the party, Uche Secondus, also handed over the running of the party to Makarfi on behalf of the sacked National Working Committee (NWC).
An interesting dimension was recorded at the event when the Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu led a one minute prayer for quick recovery of President Muhammadu Buhari.
President Buhari is currently in London for a 10-Day medical vacation.
Leading the prayer, Ekweremadu prayed for safe return of the President to continue his work.
After the prayer, he lamented that the economy had been in shambles since the APC-led government took over the affairs of the country in 2015, assuring that the party would restore the country to its lost glory when it returns to power in 2019.
The senator who went poetic in his address, said: “We must apologise to certain institutions and aspects of our national life. And to our currency, we are worried and we are sorry about the dwindling fortune of our currency. We are worried about the weakness of our currency. But we want to assure our currency that by 2019, you will be strong again”.
He said all the job losses currently witnessed in the present administration would be reversed when PDP returns to power in 2019.
Other party bigwigs who spoke including Chairman, Board of Trustees, Walid Jibrin; Chairman, PDP Governors Forum Olusegun Mimiko and Secondus pointed out that contrary to media reports, the party is not divided.
Responding, Makarfi assured that his committee will not only stand by the terms of reference of their appointment but also stabilise the party and midwife the forthcoming national convention.
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