{"id":21926,"date":"2018-03-05T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2018-03-05T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:48:13","slug":"no-one-person-owns-pdp-says-governor-dickson-insists-gana-adeniran-others-must-wooed-back-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/no-one-person-owns-pdp-says-governor-dickson-insists-gana-adeniran-others-must-wooed-back-pdp\/","title":{"rendered":"No One Person Owns PDP, Says Governor Dickson  &#8230; Insists Gana, Adeniran &amp; Others Must Be Wooed Back To PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">\u00a0By Amos Okioma<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">The Governor of Bayelsa State,\u00a0Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson has said PDP is a national asset\u00a0owned by all Nigerians, and not by any individual.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">The Governor in a press statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary,\u00a0Francis Ottah Agbo in Yenagoa on Sunday,\u00a0also described Professors Jerry Gana and Tunde Adeniran as icons of democracy and leaders of\u00a0progressive politics in the PDP and the country,\u00a0stressing that they must be wooed back to the PDP fold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">Dickson who is also the Chairman of PDP Reconciliation Committee believed, while the leaders of the party are important stakeholders\u00a0in the scheme of things,\u00a0 the real stakeholders of PDP are the ordinary Nigerians in whom sovereignty lies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">The Governor said the most rational thing for all PDP stakeholders to do now is to start a process of building consensus and reaching out to players across party lines with the PDP leading the coalition to wrest power from APC in 2019.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv2927623971MsoNormal\"><span class=\"yiv2927623971gmail-im\">The statement reads: &#8220;No one Governor, no one Lawmaker or leader of PDP can own PDP or singlehandedly produce a presidential candidate.\u00a0 Therefore, what is required of PDP leaders now is to work with all parties including those who have left the PDP to produce a credible candidate that is acceptable to the generality of Nigerians on the platform of PDP to defeat the APC in 2019.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; 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