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From Ismail Omipidan and Romans Ugwu, Abuja
The National Leader of the newly registered Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), Senator Seriake Dickson, has announced that his party was ready to receive and accommodate displaced and disgruntled politicians from both ruling and opposition parties in the build-up to next year’s general elections.
He spoke during the party’s inaugural National Executive Committee (NEC), meeting in Abuja yesterday.
He said having related closely with his fellow politicians, he had no iota of doubt that many of them that would be disappointed would seek alternative platforms to contest the forthcoming election.
He said they had already put in place mechanisms to ensure that politicians that would join his party would not destabilise it.
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Speaking to newsmen after the NEC, he said: “We call on all those who are stranded in the other parties, loyal members of the PDP who do not want to be in a party that is a clown of APC to come to this platform because it is their platform.
“Those who are aggrieved and dissatisfied and sidelined from the APC itself, which is now about to collapse under the weight of its own creation out of greed and those who cannot find space because the ruling party is too top heavy, to join the NDC because it is their platform.
“For those in the Labour Party (LP), who are still confused over who is the national chairman, this is their party. For those in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who don’t know whether the party is a collision or a coalition, this is your party.
“And if you don’t know what will happen tomorrow, don’t be confused because NDC is your party. There is a certainty about NDC. As they are joining, we have put mechanisms in place as an ideological party. We have a way of handling them.”
On the purpose of the mission of the party, he also said: “This party is founded to promote inclusivity, promote fairness, justice and integration, so that we can go back to the business, not of dividing the people, not of showing strength over the weak, not of showing power over the vulnerable, but to find and build a Nigeria, which in the words of our national anthem, reflects the design of the founding fathers.
“And there is no better prayer for Nigeria than the last one, which says, O God of all creation, grant us this one request and what is that one request? Help us to build a nation where no man is oppressed. Over the past decades, our nation has deviated from its founding ideals and principles,” he said.
