Cross River!!! PDP can’t afford to have cracks, says minister

Chief Edem Duke, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State could not afford to have any crack with the coming 2015 general elections around the corner.

Chief Edem Duke called on the party to sort out its differences to avoid being torn apart.
Duke, who said this in Calabar on Sunday, said the state was the last bastion of stability of the party in the country. He said the economic and social challenges facing the state was one that needed the input of all, adding that attention should be focused on tackling it.
The minister said, "We have gone into a season of high political activities and it is important for me especially as a minister especially with a responsibility for national orientation to make an urgent and passionate call on all members in the political space that it is critical for us to maintain a high sense of decorum in this political season. "Cross River State has always being the last bastion of stability in the PDP family all over the country.
Therefore as we begin to go into the active seasons of the elections, I wish to use the opportunity of strengthen the call of the president that we must play politics without bitterness. "It has never been the character of Cross River politics for violence and unethical utterances or for such huge accentuation of the threat to social peace, stability of the society and harmony within the party in the state. "We cannot afford at this critical time when we are facing the challenges of economic and social development, dwindling resources and all kinds of deficiencies. "We cannot allow a crack in the PDP family. It is right and appropriate for each and every one of us to aspire to leadership, but from what I have always seen in the state, we have always at the end of the day resolved out differences in harmony."

Source: Vanguard Nigeria
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