The Senate President, David Mark, has asked the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, members to put the failures of the last elections behind them and be prepared to build a strong and united party ready to play a credible opposition.

The party lost the March 28 presidential election to the opposition All Progressives Congress. It also lost control of the majority in both the Senate and House of Representatives.

Mr. Mark, who would become an ordinary member of the Senate from June, told senators and House of Representatives-elect at a parley in Abuja at the weekend to accept their status as opposition.

“We must accept the ups and downs as an opposition party. That is what the PDP is now. We must remain a united family and face the reality,” he said.

The Senate President stressed that the not-too impressive showing of the PDP in the last elections may in the long term be a blessing to the party and the nation, “because we are going back to the drawing board to do a critical review and fashion out a blue print that would get us out of the woods for good.”

He added, “The role of Opposition is strange to us but it is not a death sentence. We should be ready for the challenges.

“We are prepared to play a credible opposition. I believe the nation and indeed Nigerians would be the best for it.”

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