COMMUNIQUE ISSUED AT THE END OF THE JOINT MEETING BETWEEN AKOKO-EDO PDP STAKEHOLDERS AND WARD EXCOS

PREAMBLE 

Critical stakeholders of the PDP in Akoko-Edo with members of the excos in all the wards met on the 28th December 2021. Those present included the National Leader Akoko-Edo PDP, the Senatorial Leader Edo North, and the LGA Chairman, former and present women leaders, ward chairmen and selected excos, and invited members of the party. In all 31 members of the party across the LGA attended the meeting. Several issues were presented and deliberated upon.

During the meeting, some observations were made by members concerning the growth and development of the party in Akoko-Edo towards the 2023 and 2024 elections. 

Observations:

The National Leader of the Party, Akoko-Edo, Engr. Fred Attah, said in his opening remarks that against what is wrongly insinuated in some quarters, the leadership of Akoko-Edo PDP is not fighting the governor of the State, His Excellency, Governor Godwin Obaseki, or any leader of the Party in the State. That the Party in Akoko-Edo worked tirelessly, even with personal resources, to make sure the Governor won in the 2020 gubernatorial election. And as a matter of fact, the Party in Akoko-Edo is in support of the Governor to succeed in accomplishing the numerous electoral promises made during the ward to ward campaigns in Akoko-Edo. 

Other members present made valid contributions towards the growth of the party in Akoko-Edo by strengthening the wards which are the fulcrum of the party in the State. 

 Comminuque

1. The Party, in a motion moved by Deacon Ehihi, passed a Vote of Confidence on Engr. Fred Attah as the National Leader of the Party in Akoko-Edo and was seconded by Comrade Elempe Dele, which was agreed in a voice vote by the entire members seated. 

It was agreed that the party in Akoko-Edo is strongly in support, without flinching, of the supremacy of the Party's constitution, its tenets, elected leadership from the ward to the state executive, and do not recognize any body or sets of bodies formed under any guise outside the duly constituted ones by the congresses held in 2020 as rectified at the National Convention held in October this year. 

2. It was a generally adopted motion that there should be drastic push for Voters and PDP Online Registrations of members in Akoko-Edo to boost our numerical strength. 

3. It was also adopted that committees will be set up next year by the leadership of the party which will be charged with specific duties such as profiling would-be aspirants with the aim of presenting the best candidates for elections, among others. 

4. It was generally agreed and adopted that an expanded meeting should start off as from January 2022 since election primaries are going to be taking place in the year according to INEC's published timetable. 

Communique Drafting Committee Members:

1. Comrade Elempe Dele 

2. Engr. Lawrence J. 

3. Comrade Kayode Alabi

4. Comrade Vincent Ojeimu