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The North-East zonal leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has urged a former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, not to leave the party.
The Chairman of the PDP in the North East, Senator Lawan Giriigiri, who led the PDP zonal delegation to the residence of the former vice president at Asokoro, Abuja, on Wednesday, said the PDP leaders from the zone visited Atiku to identify with him as one of the founding leaders of the party, and to enlist his support towards repositioning the party for the challenges ahead.
The PDP North East, which is also the zone of Atiku, was said to have complained about the need to surmount the myriads of problems affecting the party, chief among which was finance.
Although journalists were not allowed into the meeting, a source who attended the parley, told our correspondent on the condition on anonymity that the former vice president assured his guests that he was still in the PDP and even pledged to render necessary support.
Atiku was said to have spoken when Girigiri told him jokingly in his opening remarks at the meeting that the North East zone was paying him a visit as they heard he had registered a new party.
The source quoted Atiku as having told them to discountenance media reports about his membership of the PDM.
The former vice president was said to have urged his guests to be firm and resolute in the pursuit of the party’s objectives at the zonal and national levels.
Atiku was also quoted as having advised the zonal leadership of the party in the North East, which he belongs, not be intimidated and be fair in all their activities.
