The leadership crisis rocking the Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have come to an end following the announcement that the congresses of the party will be taking place in couple of weeks ahead.

Briefing journalists on Monday in Abakaliki, the state chairman of the party Barr. Ekuma noted that committees have been constituted to oversee the exercise expressing the hope that the party will become stronger and formidable after the conduct of her congresses and national convention.

According to him, what was holding the party’s internal organisation is the congresses and convention, even as he vehemently dismissed any form of factions within the party.

He said, ‘We’ve constituted the committees for the upcoming congresses. We’ve constituted the state zoning committee, state congress committee, and the micro-zonal zoning committee in the state. And these are the committees that oversee the affairs of the congresses as they come. And our congress is going in earnest to start this week. This week we have entered now, maybe a third or fourth. ”

He remarked that after the congresses, the party would be further positioned to win future elections, since it remains an household name in Nigeria’s political landscape.

“Immediately we are done with our congresses ranging from the ward congresses to state congresses, zonal congresses and conventions, the party will kick-start. And I think having done that and our convention, that people will know that yes, that PDP remains the household party in Nigeria.” He added

He attested to the popularity of the party in Nigeria and its familiarisation with the challenges confronting Nigerians, especially the grassroots.

“PDP is like an old woman, they say does not get aged in a dance she’s familiar with. PDP is the only party that knows the challenges that the people are facing down to the grassroots.

“There is no family you enter today in this country that you don’t have somebody, one or two, three persons that have sympathy for PDP, if they are not members of the party.

“Today, as I’m talking to you, people are still yearning and praying that PDP bounces back to what it used to be. And that work is underway. And it’s yielding fruit seriously.

“The only thing that is holding the party about internal organization we are going through now is our convention. There is no faction again in PDP. The judgments we’ve had so far have eliminated the issue of faction.

‘So we have one PDP now in Nigeria, and the acting leadership we have now in place and the one yet to come from our Congresses and convention, with the overwhelming support of the people are capable of sacking many parties from state Government Houses and Legislative elections come 2027″, he maintained, starting from Ebonyi State.

He described those who are not showing genuine interest in the party as being far from reality, adding that those who have left PDP to other parties, still have their souls in the party.

“They are not for the party, they are just in between. The truth is this, at times we shy away from the reality; no matter where they are in this country, moving from one party to another, their heart still in PDP.

“They are just moving now to those parties for greener pastures, because there are people who cannot endure hard times or endure when things are not moving the way they expect it to be materially. All of them, they know that their bigger family, their bigger political party is PDP.