[NEWS] Saraki Welcomes Obaseki To PDP

Previous Senate President Bukola Saraki has invited Edo Governor Godwin Obaseki to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and saluted him for making a decent stride the correct way. 

In an announcement in Abuja from his media office, Saraki noticed the greater recognition and gratefulness ought to go to the pioneers of the Edo State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the different levels for the feeling of penance, energy and dedication to the advancement of the gathering exhibited by them during the time spent inviting Obaseki into its crease. 

“I also thank Obaseki’s colleagues, the PDP Governors, for their role and for ensuring that while bringing him into the party, they carried along the local chapter and refrain from just unilaterally taking decisions without the input of the leaders of the party in Edo State.

“The process our Governors adopted in working with the local chapter to bring in the Governor is a better approach than the system in many of the other parties where the National Working Committee (NWC) would simply just give him a membership card.

“That is why my appeal will, at this point, goes to all of us, the leaders and stakeholders, who gave assurances that agreement will be honoured, we need to ensure that the NWC of our party plays its own supervisory role by making sure that those agreements entered into by the Governor and the local chapter should be kept, particularly since I am very sure they are all lawful and in the interest of peace and development of the state. That is the only way to keep our integrity intact.

“At this point, it will be odd if I fail to comment on the situation that led to the change of party by Governor Obaseki.

“While I have kept my cool and ignored all the verbal attacks directed at me by the suspended chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, I have always known that a day like this would come when his masquerade will dance naked in the market.

“The truth is always constant and no matter how far falsehood travels, the truth will catch up with it one day.

“Oshiomhole can fool people for a long time but he cannot fool the people all the time. What is happening to him now is a moment of truth.

“This same man who was garrulously proclaiming the end of the political career of some other people is now about to meet his Waterloo.

“He has continued to use his mouth to divide his party and I believe there is a lesson for all politicians to learn from the fate of the suspended APC chairman.

“No autocrat can successfully pretend to be a Democrat. The true character of a man will come out one day”, he said.

Saraki further expressed all admirers of majority rule government ought to be keen on the rise of a sound and solid gathering framework and association which would give reasonable stages to individuals hope for and give quality authority to the nation.