Mark Assures On Resolution Of PDP Crisis

The Senate President, David Mark, has said that the internal crisis rocking the PDP would be amicably resolved.

Mark, who was speaking on Sunday in Gamawa, Bauchi State, while receiving Senator Nazif Gamawa, who defected to the PDP, said the current crisis would make the party stronger.

He said that efforts were going on to resolve the crisis amicably, adding that all the contending parties had demonstrated their interest in the well-being of the party.

According to him, most of those who left the party at local government, state and national levels are making efforts to return.

The Senate President also solicited support for a second term for Governor Isa Yuguda to enable him complete his developmental programmes.

“From what we have heard and seen on the ground, he has done well in his first term, so he deserves a second term to enable him do more for you,” he said.

He also reiterated his call to allow democracy to grow, by allowing the present members of the National Assembly to continue.

“The more a legislator stays in the assembly the better he gets. We are therefore urging that all our National Assembly members who want to go back should be given automatic tickets by the PDP,’’ Mark said.

In his address, Yuguda said he and his supporters returned to the PDP because of their conviction that they would get justice and equity.

The Governor said he was happy Gamawa was returning to the PDP, and assured the people of the state that the party would be better and stronger.

In a remark, Gamawa, said he came back to the PDP to join hands with Yuguda and others to move the state forward.

He said that he had opposed what he was supposed to oppose and that it was time for him and others to join hands with Yuguda to move the state forward.

Chairman of PDP North-East zone, Sen. Paul Wampana called on Gamawa to obey the party’s constitution being one of the conditions of his return.

Gamawa was elected Senator, representing Bauchi North Senatorial District on the platform of the AC in 2007.

He had earlier been making plans to contest the governorship election on the platform of his former party before defecting to the PDP.