NATIONAL NEWS

The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu`azu, has said that there was a need for party members to sincerely assess themselves to know where they had got it wrong.

Alh. Adamu Mu'azu

He said  in Abuja when Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta led a delegation of the party`s stakeholders in the state on a courtesy call on him.

Mu`azu, however, maintained that with the absolute cooperation, collaboration and prayers of party members, PDP would regain its lost ground in record time.

He promised that the party, under his leadership would continue to strengthen and deepen democracy and the rule of law in the party.

Mu`azu emphasised that the party would not give automatic ticket to any aspirant in 2015,  adding that the party would not anoint or give automatic ticket to any aspirant.

He decried a situation where some politicians claimed to be on ground because of their closeness to some persons in the party’s headquarters without getting acquainted with those at the grassroots.

Earlier, Chief Edwin Clarke, a PDP chieftain, described the defection of some PDP members to the opposition as an uneventful exercise.

He expressed hope that those who recently defected to the opposition would return to the party`s fold soon.

Uduaghan said the visit was to congratulate Mu`azu on his emergence as the national chairman of the party, and to pledge the loyalty and support of the people of Delta to him.

He said the people of Delta would give total support to President Goodluck Jonathan, adding that PDP in Delta was ``united, in charge and on ground’’.

This, he said, was so because the people of the state had seen reason to embrace the party.

The governor said that though the party had challenges in the past, the emergence of Mu`azu as its national chairman had made great impact on its rebuilding.

He also said that Delta was solidly behind President Goodluck Jonathan, and called on all Nigerians to continue to support him in spite of the challenges facing the country.

Uduaghan added that the state government had made impact with its three-point agenda in all aspects of the state economy.

He said that though the state was an oil producing state, it was looking beyond oil as major sustenance of its economy.

The state government, he said, had commenced diversification of its resources to other areas such as agriculture to realise its objective.

The governor also said that because most of the projects being embarked upon by the state government were long term project, the government concentrated on microcredit scheme to deal with immediate needs.

Uduaghan was accompanied on the visit by the state PDP stakeholders, House of Representatives members, local government chairmen and commissioners.