Following Delta Central Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) leaders resolve to reposition the party ahead of 2019,
the Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Monday Igbuya has praised
the Tom Amioku led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership over the decision.
Igbuya told the leaders in Asaba on
Monday to focus on dues, subscriptions and other avenues to fund the activities
of the party.
“We need all officials, all
appointees of government from Delta Central senatorial district to support the
party. If you are patronized by the party in power, it is statutory you give a
certain percentage of your stipend to the party. As chairman of Sapele Local
Government, deductions were made from my salary and to the least appointee of
the council. But these days, we see situations where people feel it is their
own effort; it is their own connections that put them there and to hell with
the party. You need to invite those that you labored for. You need
to invite PDP members from Delta Central in the House of Assembly to your
meeting. Many people who are in diaspora just come and get appointment. They
don’t know their responsibilities to the party” he said.
He assured the leaders that he would
always respect the party.
“The PDP produced me. You labored
day and night to secure victory for our great party and I must respect the
party. We have so many appointees in government and there is no way that
the party cannot pay salaries. If those you have put in place are responsive
enough to give back, the burden of the party will be immensely reduced. In the
face of that bad council, the first thing they collect is their security vault.
If the party is not there today, you will not be where you are. So we must
encourage that that money be paid.
It is when the party is sustained that you
are able to collect your two million. So I encourage Mr. Chairman to take this
up seriously at the state executive meeting so that the party officials on
ground can be encouraged. And remember the only thing we have today now is the
state; Imagine people ordinarily who are working to be ministers, who are
struggling to have federal appointments are now Special Advisers.
Some of them
may struggle one day to become councilors. Count on us in this assembly. If you
call members of this house to contribute, they will comply. I am a party man to
the core and I believe in my party”
Stating that the PDP government is
more concerned with the welfare of the people and the economic development of
the state, Igbuya said that the drop in oil price is hitting hard on the state
government
“The task before the state is heavy,
demanding and challenging, he said, promising that the current administration
is utilizing available resources judiciously.
Igbuya while urging the people to
support Governor Okowa to enable the PDP administration succeed, described the
governor as a turnaround expert.
“We have a very responsible
governor; a governor who is energetic, full of wisdom and guided by God” he
said.
The leaders who paid a courtesy call
on Mister Speaker at the Delta State House of Assembly commended the speaker
for the robust relationship between the two arms of government.
They also congratulated him for his
victory at the tribunal.
“PDP is not at the centre. We are
facing real challenges. We are strategically repositioning the party. We need
your support” Chairman of Delta Central PDP, Chief Tom Amioku said.
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