The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Iyorchia Ayu, has said that Nigeria will regain her respect in the community of nations with Atiku Abubakar as the President of the country.
He said, Atiku Abubakar “will lead us to get rid of bandits and terrorists. And will re-enforce the armed forces.”
The PDP’s National Chairman who stated this yesterday while presenting the certificate of return to the party’s presidential candidate, said Nigeria has never been “as divided as we are today as a country.”
“All of you are aware of what has happened to our country in the last seven years. I don’t need to repeat issues of insecurity, total destruction of the economy, total disunity of the country.
“We have never been as divided as we are today as a country. Families are divided, communities are divided against each other. There is no trust among ourselves.
“The president that is coming in is tested and trusted. He will lead us to reunite the country. He will lead us to rebuild the economy. He will lead us to get rid of bandits and terrorists. He will re-enforce the armed forces. He will give us respect in the international community. Today, we are a pariah state but in the next 12 months, the whole world will begin to respect Nigeria all over again,” he said.
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To party members, Ayu said; “I urge all of you to come together. It doesn’t matter which candidate you supported, come together and support the party, support our efforts, support our candidates, the next President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and I want to assure you that we in the National Working Committee will continue to work tirelessly because you didn’t elect to us to organise a successful convention, you elected us to win the presidency for you.
“You elected us to give you more governors, you elected us to take control of the two Houses of the National Assembly. You elected us to win all the Houses of Assembly across the states and we will continue to do just that by working with you, by calling on many of you to come and help us execute these objectives because we can’t do it alone.
“I would thank all party members who have risen to the occasion. Many of you participated in generating delegates across the country.
“I want to first thank my brother and friend, Senator David Alechenu Mark and the whole team that made it possible for us to have this successful convention. Within the PDP family, we had a minor contest, a small contest within the family. There were no victors, there were no vanquishes, the party won. It is the party that won. Atiku Abubakar is not yet victorious. He has only been produced as our candidate, the candidate of the whole party.
“I want to congratulate him and congratulate all the aspirants who participated in that event. If they didn’t participate, it actually would not have been a successful event, but thank God. Because of the popularity of our party, So many aspirants came forward.
“We had an initial number of 17. I think one was screened out and about 16 went all the way. Of course some stepped down along the line but they participated all the same. We want to thank all of you aspirants for your contribution to the growth of this great party. We appreciate you all.
“As we march forward, we need all of you because each one of you has a supporter and all of you plus all your supporters, we want you all to fuse together into one happy political family. It is this family that will face the battle ahead.
“We have only started a journey. We shall end this journey sometime next year. By the first of June next year, we should take over power from a colourless and clueless government that has totally destroyed this country.”