Jonathan’s candidacy was our party’s undoing,’ Raymond Dokpesi

The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) re-branding conference was put in place to mend fences and prepare the party for the next elections.

Punch Newspapers reports that the Chairman of the national planning committee of the conference, Dr. Raymond Dokpesi,admitted to Nigerians that fielding former President Jonathan was the greatest mistake the party made.

Dokpesi said “We are aware that there were errors we made. We admit that we made mistakes and we have not met the expectation of Nigerians and we tendered unreserved apologies for these mistakes.

“You must have seen the Ike Ekweremadu report on why we are apologising. There was no internal democracy. There was impunity within the party and there was no level-playing ground for members of the party.

“Zoning principles of the party were abandoned and gamuts of all other issues, which will come out during the conference and for all these and the people who have been offended; for people whose toes were stepped upon, we also tendered an unreserved apology.

“These are the reasons why we are begging and apologising. We want to assure every founding member of the party that we deviated from their visions. That is why we are going to have all our founding fathers, like Adamu Ciroma, Dr. Alex Ekwueme and other members of the G.34, to come and talk to us at the conference.

“For every and any mistake we have made, I therefore say, we tender our unreserved apologies.”