PDP crisis: NWC demands apology from workers

Aggrieved workers of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are now in dilemma over their agitation for better condition of service, following demand for apology by the National Working Committee, NWC, for a truce to be established. The party’s NWC yesterday directed the angry workers to write letters of apology and show remorse for their action before they could be listened to. A source confirmed to our correspondent that the workers have been directed to write letters of apology and copy Chairman, Board of Trustees, BoT, National Executive Committee, NEC, and the PDP Governors’ Forum before they could be listened to. “The NWC is sad that we have caused the party a lot of embarrassment; they complained that we ought to have channelled our grievances through Director of Administration, who in turn would pass it to the National Secretary without recourse to the public,” he said. It was learnt the resolution that the workers should apologise was taken at a meeting between the NWC and management staff of the party held yesterday at the Legacy House in Abuja. The resolution was conveyed to the enlarged workers’ forum at a meeting held inside the NEC Hall at the party’s secretariat. It was further learnt that though the angry workers have decided to comply, but they unanimously said they stand by the reply to the memo issued by the National Secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo. “We are not to be blamed for making the issue a public discourse; it was the memo the NWC leaked to the public through the National Secretary that led to our reaction. “We will apologise, but we are not to be blamed for how it became a public issue; yet we stand by the content of the reply to the National Secretary,” the source said.