...Says, Court cases in Kaduna, Nasarawa, Ogun, Kaduna, Sokoto States will be in our favour.

The People's Democratic party on Tuesday reaffirmed their statement that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar won the February 25th, 2023 presidential election.

Briefing news men on the outcome of the National Working Committee select committee meeting held at the national Executive council Hall, Wadata Abuja, Capt Umar Bature, National Organizing Secretary said the meeting was called to douse tension within the party.

Speaking further , Bature said, "This party believe that Atiku Abubakar won the election but we are in court and without prejudice to what the court will decide, we will keep it aside. Let me acknowledge that this meeting is not a NEC meeting but an interactive meeting with the aim to jump starting a reconciliation process.

"Let me give a preview of the our performance in the last election. In the State House of Assemblies, we have 342 members, we have 116 members in the House of Representatives. In the Senate, we have 36 members and we have 13 Governors. We believe strongly that the ongoing tribunal cases in Kaduna, Nasarawa, Ogun, Kaduna and Sokoto States will be in our favour.

"As the Acting National Chairman said, we started these meetings with the ex-officio where we briefed them on our performance in the 2023 election and gave an update on the level of party management. We also discussed the challenges of state chapters. We also looked at the issue of vacant positions within the Strate Chapters and other various organs of the party because of swinging membership. Some people went to other parties and all that. We sought suggestions on how to improve the party.

"We are here today and everyone knows what happened in 2023. We contributed both individually and collectively . If you rise to speak, I beg you to spell out your own role in 2023 elections, either positive or negative before you jump to accuse someone else either negative or positive. Everybody had a role to play. When you rise to speak, please, tell us the role you played. You can accuse anybody here for playing pro or anti party activities. The aim is when we are through, we will have an idea of what to do with the party before we move to other organs like the national caucus , NEC for the way forward for the party. I believe there is hope for the party because our membership is still very strong.

 "We are conscious of the issues because we went to Port Harcourt and I am sure, that will come up here. I will explain why we went to Port Harcourt. We believe there are people here who will accuse some of our elders of certain roles they played. In my state, somebody suggested that we should suspend a member but I said no. He is free to go to anywhere he wants to go. Suspending him means you are acknowledging that he has done something bad to the party. Suspension is not an answer to a bad behaviour towards the party.

"I welcome all of us to this meeting. It is the first meeting after the general election. We carefully and deliberately called for this meeting to in a way, douse the pressure or tension within the party as a result of the aftermath of the 2023 elections.

Also, Senator Adolphus Wabara, Acting Chairman, Board of Trustees of the party expressed surprised that the party still maintained a sizeable number of members.

" I didn’t expect that we still have this number in our party. I want to congratulate all of us for this having faith in this party. This is what will make us strong to clinch our stolen victory. We should not despair. We are in politics!  

 "As our acting National Chairman mentioned, they stole our mandate. We hope the tribunal and the courts will give us back our stolen mandate. Much as some of us may disagree with the synopsis, because we are still in court, we should mind what we are going to say today so it doesn’t work against us in the court. Let us watch how we attack ourselves. There will be time for that. The BOT waits to take some advisory decisions but then this is not the time."