BEVERLY HILLS, December 12, (THEWILL) – National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, has appealed to all those that contested and lost at the party’s convention not to feel bad, saying there was no victor and no vanquished.

He spoke, on Monday, at the National Headquarters of the party, in Abuja, when he and the newly elected members of the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) assumed office.

He told the gathering, which included all members of the former Caretaker Committee, led by Senator Ahmed Makarfi, that the old order was gone.

Secondus commended Makarfi for holding what he described as the best national convention in the history of political parties in the country.

He promised to bring everyone on board in the running of the party adding that he would decentralise power from the centre so that he and members of the NWC would be less busy to enable them focus on the mission to reclaim power in 2019.

“By the special grace of God, elections have and gone and I declare to you that there is no victor, no vanquished,” he declared.

“Our first assignment will be to bring all and sundry together, that is reconciliation. We reassure leaders of our party especially those who contested this election.

“We have already started work and by the grace of God, it will be productive. We promise to rebuild the party to regain the lost grounds. That will start today.

“As I walked in through the gate, it was symbolic. I asked that the gate be thrown open.

“I hereby declare the gate to this party open to all our people irrespective of their religious beliefs, their class.

“They are free to come into the party especially those who left for one reason or the other.”