The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has said that there is still room for those who left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to return.
The National Leader of the PDP stated this on Monday during the 108th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the party.
The meeting was held at Wadata Plaza, the party’s National Secretariat, in Abuja.
Wike advised the Abdulrahman Mohammed-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to continue its reconciliation efforts to strengthen the PDP.
He said: “Now we are together, we must not stop at reconciliation.
“The more, the merrier.
“It will be nonsense to say those who have defected, let them go.
“No.
“Chairman and your team, make sure you put up a strong committee that will still go ahead and talk to those who have defected.
“There is still room for them to come back.
“And whatever that is due to them, they will still have it.”
Wike said that most of the defectors left because of uncertainty, adding that most politicians would find somewhere they could get succour.
He said: “But now that the party is back and the party will be on the ballot paper, if you go and talk to them, I believe they will have a rethink and continue to support this party.
“On my own part, let me assure you I’ll continue to support the party.
“I’ll continue to be loyal to the party.
“Since 1998 till now, I have been a member of the PDP, and I will not leave the party.
“That is the truth of the matter.”
On pending cases before the courts, the minister expressed confidence in the party’s lawyers, saying: “They are doing a great job.
“Also, God who has led us this far can never abandon us.
“So, if God had wanted to abandon us, we wouldn’t have started winning.
