Former Governor of Cross River State Mr Donald Duke says machinery is being put in place to revamp the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and woo back to the party, former members currently in All Progressives Congress.

Duke made the vow while receiving former PDP state party Chairman, Ntufam Ekpo Okon, who defected from the PDP to the APC to contest election as the deputy governorship candidate in 2019.

According to Duke, “From time to time you leave your institution and go for a sabbatical. I have had experience because I went on sabbatical too when I left the party to another party.

“And today we have our colleagues who made the party tick. We are not going to rest on our oars. We have worked for this party since 1998. A strange element came and took our party.

“We even allowed the strange elements to occupy seats that we the owners ought to have occupied. I will tell you without equivocation that the state today ought to be among the richest states in Nigeria. So we have to recall all our ‘lecturers’ who went on sabbatical back to the party. We are receiving and harvesting all our members who left the PDP for a sabbatical in batches.”

Speaking during the event, the former PDP state party Chairman Ntufam Ekpo Okon said he was happy to be received back to the fold and assured the party faithful of his total loyalty to the PDP.

According to him, he and Duke were able to attain the height which they did through the support of the PDP members he has returned to rub shoulders with once again.