The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential Campaign Organisation, PPCO, have extended sympathies to the families of its members and other Nigerians who died in a ghastly motor accident in Benue.
Recall that some PDP members were involved in an accident on Otukpo-Agatu Road in Benue while going to the campaign flag-off of a Senatorial candidate on Friday. Several lives were lost in that multiple accident.
In a statement issued by the Director, Media and Publicity, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday in Abuja, the party leadership expressed pain at the death of their members “in their quest to ensure an acceptable, people-oriented representation of their zone in the Senate.”
He, however, commended Benue State Gov. Samuel Ortom and other leaders for their timely and generous interventions and urged members from other states to also extend their hands of fellowship to the bereaved and the wounded.
The statement read in part: “The PDP leadership is particularly pained that these party faithful died on their way to the flag-off of the PDP Benue South Senatorial campaign, in their quest to ensure an acceptable, people-oriented representation of their zone in the Senate.
“The party also called on members to ensure that the deceased did not die in vain by remaining united in working harder, now more than ever before, to ensure the party’s victory in all elections in the state.
“While praying for the peaceful repose of the soul of the dead and speedy recovery for the wounded, the party deeply condoles with their families, the PDP Benue Chapter as well as the government and people of Benue over this tragedy.”
