Akwa Ibom PDP reconciliation committee submits report, begs aggrieved members

By Adeleye Kunle

The post primaries reconciliation committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Akwa Ibom State, has submitted its reports to the State party secretariat.

Track News reports that the party after the primaries inaugurated an 11-man Reconciliation Committee headed by Senator Effiong Bob, with a mandate of reconciling aggrieved members back to the party.

Chairman of the committee, while presenting the report to the party Chairman, Aniekan Akpan explained that his committee had written letters to all categories of aspirants who took part in the just-concluded nomination processes of the party to appear before the committee for discussions and dialogue.

Senator Bob said, “Mr Chairman, one of the driving tenets and staying strategies of our Party, the PDP has always been the high value we place on all categories of our members. Sir, you have given this committee the strict directive that all categories of people who appear before the committee must be granted fair hearing.

“From aspirants and candidates of the State House of Assembly seats up to the Gubernatorial candidate and aspirants, we had reached out to everyone. We even had to host a Zoom meeting where we brought aspirants who were out of the State and the country to join us in the committee.

“I, therefore, stand here to report to you on behalf of the committee that we had painstakingly listened to all issues brought before us by eminent members of our party who honoured our invitation to appear before the committee.”

Bob further hinted that both those who eventually emerged as candidates, as well as those who did not emerge as candidates, were brought together to engage in a rich and robust dialogue with a view to forging new bonds, make efforts at harmonising interests, as well as point them to the array of opportunities and possibilities that working together as a team could open up for everyone ahead of the elections