The immediate past Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Rivers State, Bro. Felix Obuah says, he is happy and proud to handover a winning party to a new executive in the State.
Bro. Obuah who made the declaration in his parting speech during the swearing-in ceremony of the new executives of the party on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, at Obi Wali International Cultural Center, Port Harcourt, said he is excited to have improved the fortunes of the party more than he met it.
The immediate past Rivers PDP Chairman who described the party as one with the potentials – human and material to win elections any time, any day and anywhere, no matter who present themselves as opponents or antagonists, said a major attribute and reason behind his success story lies in party discipline imbibed in members.
SEE FULL TEXT BELOW: TEXT OF THE PARTING SPEECH OF THE OUTGOING CHAIRMAN OF THE RIVERS STATE CHAPTER OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY, PDP, BRO FELIX OBUAH DURING THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY OF THE NEW EXECUTIVE OF THE PARTY, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 2020
It’s indeed a joyful experience to note that today’s event is the grand finale of the months-long process of electing the new set of leaders of our great party, the PDP, who, most expectedly will ensure that our dear Rivers State remains a PDP state and our winning streaks as it were, are sustained as traditional in all party elections in the State. I say this with an almost sense of responsibility, knowing full well that wherever there is the will there must be a way.
Moreso, with the hindsight of an achiever, I make no doubt that with the personage of the new state chairman, Amb. Desmond Akawor and his able lieutenants, the party can do no less than we have been able to accomplish even under a more challenging beginning. You are living witnesses to what the scenario looked like when I, and my team assumed office on April 15, 2015.
The story is better told by attentive and impartial observers because as men who make history, we have no time to write it, goes a popular aphorism. It most however be pinpointed that my leadership before, now and in time to come will stand out as the most democratic characterized with team spirit and brotherhood among the leaders and members of the party at all levels.
This was possible because upon assumption of office, we prayed for divine wisdom and guidance based on a deeper understanding that our world having narrowed into a neighbourhood has further broadened into a brotherhood and as the great Martin Luther King noted, “we must team to live together as brothers or perish together as fools”. This is the stimulus to the altruistic principle of ‘Go-round’ that has always characterized my actions and dealings in both private and public life.
I can in fact, confidently say without fear of contradiction that in no other political party in our State, now or before, will you experience the kind of care for one another, love, co-operation, brotherhood and ‘Go-Round’ as was found in my administration through the two terms I held sway as the State Chairman Ex-ordinary and Plenipotentiary.
This should serve as a template, a platform and plank for the new administration to raise the bar of excellence to sustain our first among equals status of the Rivers State PDP. To say or even think that the path to the present height of our party today is rosy is to sound simplistic at best, or unrealistic at worse.
The politics of Nigeria, commentators and analysts have noted, defies all known theories of political history.
The waters are murky and must be navigated with caution if you must come out of it unscathed coupled with the economic and socio-political idiosyncrasies of our political environment in Rivers State and the Niger Delta region in general.
Notwithstanding all the challenges, I am happy and proud to hand over to my successors this day, Wednesday, 13, 2020, a victorious, all conquering
