PDP In Financial Crisis, Begs Party Supporters For Money

Abuja - The crisis rocking the People's Democratic Party (PDP) has taken its toll on the party's finance as the Chairman of the party, Dr. Bamanga Tukur, on Wednesday appealed to Godwill Akpabio and Ibrahim Shema, governors of Akwa Ibom and Katsina states respectively, to help the party source for funds.

Speaking at the inauguration of the party’s National Finance Committee in Abuja, Tukur asked the members of the committee to move round the country and appeal to PDP supporters to donate money to the party.

According to him, the party needed money to continue with some of its projects particularly its national secretariat complex located at the Central Business District, Abuja.

Tukur said, “This committee is going to appeal to our members, people of goodwill  to come and support us so that  our party will continue to do its good works.

“I therefore charge you to help this party mobilise members in order to do our works like the building of our national secretariat.”

The committee constitutes of Akpabio, who is the chairman, Shema is the deputy chairman, other members of the committee are Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, two ministers, representatives of the six geo-political zones and some members of the National Working Committee of the party.

Speaking on behalf of other members of the committee, Akpabio assured Tukur that members of the committee would work as a team, adding that the problem that bedeviled the party in the past was the inability of the members of the former NWC to work as a team, which he said the committee would try to avoid.

He said, “I am emphasizing the word ‘team’ because I know that the problem we had in the recent past was that the National Working Committee of our party did not work as a team, but Mr. Chairman today, with the support of all the party faithful across Nigeria, we believe strongly that today we have a team.”

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