PDP youth want party to change name, merge with others

A youth group within the main

opposition party, Peoples Democratic

Party, PDP, known as PDP Youth

Frontier, PDPYF, has called on leaders of the party to earnestly consider merging with smaller parties and changing its name.

The group made this position known

in a communique on Monday in

Abuja, after a meeting of its National

Working Committee.

The communique, signed by the

group’s national coordinator, Austin

Okai, said if the PDP is to make any

headway in the 2019 elections, it must “put its house in order”.

The PDP youth said that “in the past 2 months, several consultations and

shared ideas have pointed to the fact

that for the PDP to regain power at the federal level come 2019, a total

overhaul of its entire system must

occur. Ensure discipline and expel the members undergoing criminal

investigation including NWC and BoT

members”.

The group said the national

headquarters of the party must in its

overall interest provide such a playing

ground for all aspirations to thrive

within the party.

“Nigeria is currently at a crossroad

such that only a strong sense of

leadership with purpose can return

the country to the path of economic

prosperity, progress and unity which

it may have deviated from,” they said.

The group also said the ongoing war

against corruption and graft by the

administration of President

Muhammadu Buhari, “is wholly a

welcome development that is long

overdue. However the war must be

executed with regards to the

constitutions of the Federal Republic

of Nigeria above anything else”.