Ahead of the 2015 general elections, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has activated its political machinery to not just retain its dominance in the political sphere, but also enlarge its political sphere.
This comes as the PDP National Secretariat will organize a retreat for all Zonal/State Publicity and Organizing Secretaries in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
The retreat which is holding between the 12 th – 15th December 2012 will have Resource Persons from within and outside the party delivering papers.
Among the resource persons are former National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, founding National Publicity Secretary, Senator Aniete Okon and Chairman of the Editorial Board of Thisday Newspapers, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi.
Also on the resource team are; Member, Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, Dr. Akilu Indabawa, Political Adviser to the Vice President, Mallam Abba Dabo and Mr. Colet Odenigbo, a Media Consultant.
A statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh says members of the resident Press Corps attached to the PDP National Secretariat are participants in the retreat in order to give them an insight into the inner workings of the PDP.
Participants are to arrive on Wednesday, 12th December 2012 for accreditation at the State PDP Secretariat in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
A source told Pointblanknews that the retreat “is expedient to reformat and strategise ahead of the 2015 election. We are not unaware of the moves by the opposition to pull a surprise, even though we know they don’t not have the capacity to do so.”
The source noted that the retreat will provide “veritable resource tools”
ahead of
the elections to ensure that the party not just wins elections but also push the frontiers of their political space.
While the PDP consolidates, the proposed merger of the major opposition political parties, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and the All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP) have remained in hazy.
More still, a major desire for the ruling party has been to recapture the South West region which it lost to the ACN (and has not been able to reclaim) since 2007