Bamanga Tukur unfolds 12-point agenda for PDP

THE National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), Dr Bamanga Tukur has vowed to turn
around the story of the ruling party through the 12-
point agenda of action which he recently submitted
to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the
party.
Tukur said the carefully drawn agenda for
transforming the PDP and Nigeria would be operated
religiously with stakeholders of the party playing
major roles, such that the effect of the agenda would
be felt across Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world
just within a 12-month calendar period.
The Tafidan Adamawa made this known in his Abuja
residence when some leaders of the party paid him a
visit, just as he disclosed that the era of party
supremacy was back in PDP. He stressed that all
elected members of the party would henceforth be
upholding the programmes and manifestoes of the
party in national interest.
The 12-point agenda, according to the PDP chairman,
would rest on a three-prong categorisation, which
included Triple-R, Triple-E and Triple-D. According to
him, it would offer a road map in solving the
problems including terrorism, energy crisis,
insecurity and the problem of corruption.
Tukur told his guests that the Triple-R agenda would
start with a genuine reconciliation process for
members to embrace the party and its programmes
while aggrieved members would be made to have a
sense of belonging. The reformation of the party and
a process of total rebuilding based on equity and
justice would also hold paramount in the overall
agenda, according to him.
The Triple-E agenda, Tukur said centered on Energy,
Environmental Sustainability/Food Security and
Education. He said PDP would launch series of
programmes with laudable inputs from the federal
and state governments under its control.
The PDP, he said, would encourage foreign experts to
assist Nigeria in tackling the climate change
challenges, a reason he said the party would
henceforth send representatives to global events on
climate change in order to be abreast of new ideas
being developed to address the problem.
He emphasised the need to enhance Nigeria's
education system in line with the federal government
policies, stressing that the ruling party would not
rest on its oars in raising ideas towards improving
and advancing on the education system, especially in
all educationally disadvantaged states of the
federation.
He expressed support for the initiative by President
Goodluck Jonathan on the Almajiri system of
education. He said the PDP would be willing to
propagate the system by encouraging the northern
governors to key into it as panacea for ending the
problem of poverty, illiteracy and ignorance in the
northern region.
The PDP, according to the chairman, had been
concerned with the problem of energy supply in
Nigeria and had been exploring all avenues towards
improving on the problem very rapidly before the
end of 2015, noting that food security in the country
would be enhanced with steady supply of electricity.
Tukur said the Triple-D agenda centered on Defence,
Diplomacy and Dialogue, disclosing that the ground
work he had made on the agenda, had convinced him
that the endemic problem of insecurity and scanty
foreign investments in Nigeria would soon become a
thing of the past.
He said the PDP would no longer wait for agencies of
government to fashion out agenda for ending the
problem of terrorism in the country, but would rather
stand on its feet in making strong inputs aimed at
addressing the problem, emphasising also on using
diplomacy and right logistics for that purpose.
Also, the president of the African Business
Roundtable and chairman NEPAD Business Group
said sufficient papers and policy initiatives had been
baked in Nigeria for addressing the myriad of
problems confronting the country, noting that the
PDP would tap from such in its desire to put Nigeria
on the path of sustainable progress and development
like never before.
He called on all members of the party not only to
support the new drive by PDP, to re-launch and take
the lead in addressing the immediate challenges
facing Nigeria, but also to make more suggestions
aimed at making the party achieve its desires.