The Chairman of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday appealed to Godwill Akpabio
and Ibrahim Shema, governors of Akwa Ibom and Katsina states respectively, to
help the party source for funds.
Tukur, who spoke at the
inauguration of the party’s National Finance Committee in Abuja, asked the
members of the committee to move round the country and appealed to PDP
supporters to donate money to the party.
While Akpabio is the chairman of
the committee, Shema is the deputy chairman.
Some other members of the
committee included Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, two
ministers, representatives of the six geo-political zones and some members of
the National Working Committee of the party.
Tukur told members of the
committee, who were all presented with letters of appointment, that the party
needed money to continue with some of its projects particularly its national
secretariat complex located at the Central Business District, Abuja.
Our correspondent reported that
the crisis rocking the PDP had taken its toll on the party finance.
Tukur told the committee
members, “This committee is going to appeal to our members, people of
goodwill to come and support us so that our party will continue to
do its good works.
“I therefore charge you to help
this party mobilise members in order to do our works like the building of our
national secretariat.”
Speaking on behalf of other
members of the committee, Akpabio assured Tukur that members of the committee
would work as a team.
He said the problem that
bedeviled the party in the past was the inability of the members of the former
NWC to work as a team, which he said the committee would try to avoid.
He said, “I am emphasizing the
word ‘team’ because I know that the problem we had in the recent past was that
the National Working Committee of our party did not work as a team, but Mr.
Chairman today, with the support of all the party faithful across Nigeria, we
believe strongly that today we have a team.”(Punch)
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