Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees has said that the party would offer constructive criticism and be a credible opposition without engaging in frivolities.
After the BoT’s over-three-hours meeting on Wednesday, the acting Chairman of the board, Harilu Bello said: “We agreed that PDP as a political party will not engage in frivolity, but would put the APC on its toes and offer credible criticisms and not to criticise for the mere sake of that.
“We will ensure that we offer criticisms where and when it is necessary just as the NWC and the National Publicity Secretary of our party did when it called on the Buhari administration to concentrate on good governance and not offering excuses for its inertia.”
The Secretary of the BoT, Senator Walid Jubrin also added that the party is definitely going to rebound, he said “Our party is going to pick up again and we are going to rebound. As we are doing, so we need their cooperation and without their cooperation, I do not think we will succeed; let them give us time so that we can do our best to ensure that we bring back the prominence of this party.
“The post mortem committee of the election that has taken place. We have to be very careful at handling such matter.
“We have to set up a road map, an action plan which we are planning to do. We have invited for memorandum and we are just getting the memorandum from every member of the party on the way forward which we have come here to discuss to help the committee, we are also planning a special tour to the various zones to meet with the stakeholders and discuss with them and find out anybody capable of writing a memorandum on what we face, and we are going to collect this by tomorrow when we will meet again to put all these things together and come up with a road map.”
Though, he said the party had approved the sharing of the office of minority leader and minority whip for members in the Senate and House of Representatives, he urged the PDP members in the National Assembly to be law abiding as the party would soon come out with the road map for the way forward.
On the opposition to Olusegun Mimiko as chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Jubrin said: “The issue of the forum chairmanship has been resolved. There is no petition before the party on that. The BoT was not given any petition. I am telling you whatever the issue, the issue has been resolved already.”
The meeting was attended by PDP governors, Senators and former governors.