POLITICS: PDP will survive crisis, emerge stronger – Senate Leader

LEGISREPORTS NG - Senate Majority Leader, Victor Ndoma-Egba, has debunked insinuations that the crisis confronting the ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, could possibly lead to its disintegration and subsequent fall from supremacy.
He said that the party had all it takes to survive the crisis majorly caused by the outcome of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, election, and emerging even stronger.
The Senate Leader said: “When you don’t have crisis in a political party, it means that the party is dead. A living party should anticipate crisis, the important thing is that do you have the mechanism of resolving the crisis and I say yes.
“The PDP has the mechanism for resolving the crisis than what we are seeing now and all the crisis in the past were resolved and I believe that we have the resilience and the facility to resolve crisis as they confront us and this will not be an exception.”
Speaking on the legitimacy of association of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Ndoma-Egba said, “the Constitution allows them to come together as an interest group, so they are at liberty to associate under whatever law.”
The Senate Majority Leader also expressed optimism concerning the PDP retaining its supremacy at the 2015 general elections, stating that insinuations suggesting attempts by the opposition to unseat it had a high possibility of not happening.
This report was prepared by our reporter in Abuja.