PDP in coma:- David Mark

Senate President, David Mark, yesterday, warned that the party, PDP, will die if the leadership, stakeholders and members did not urgently nip in the bud all internal squabbles and media hostilities.

The Senate President said the party is already in coma and haemorrhaging, warning that further squabbling by its leaders would lead to the death of the party.

Mark painted the sad picture when the Chairman of the PDP post-election assessment committee, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, visited him.

Mark spoke as the national leadership of the party said that the PDP has overcome the shock and trauma it suffered at the polls and urged members to embrace peace and work with the Ekweremadu committee.

Senator Mark, however, called on all stakeholders to rise above the present circumstances and work hard to rejuvenate the party, adding that the new status of the party as an opposition will be a challenge that must be faced with all honesty, sincerity of purpose and dedication to duty.
He said he had the belief that democracy and the nation would be better for it, “if we play credible opposition to ensure good governance and delivery of dividends of democracy to Nigerians.”

Meanwhile, the national leadership of the PDP said that it has recovered from the shock and trauma it went through following its massive loss at the 2015 general polls.

Apart from losing the presidency to the All Progressives Congress, APC, the ruling PDP lost its 16-year dominance of Senate and House of Representatives and control of its traditional states like Plateau, Niger, Kaduna, Benue, Bauchi, and Jigawa. Now it has 46 senators to APC’s 60 and the same scenario applies in the House of Representatives.

In a statement in Abuja at the end of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC meeting, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, said that the timely intervention of President Goodluck Jonathan paved the way for the party’s quick recovery from the trauma.