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PDP re-strategises for 2019
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has set up a panel headed by a former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, to work out how the party can regain power at the centre in the 2019 general elections.
National Vice Chairman of the party (South-South), Cairo Ojuogbo, who revealed this in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, added that Nigerians would beg the PDP to return to power in the next four years.
Ojuogbo said his party would return to power because the All Progressives Congress (APC) is crisis-ridden, alluding to the disagreement in the ruling party over the National Assembly leadership.
According to him, the APC does not only lack the capacity to manage the crisis, but also lacks coordination and ideology.
On the petition against Governor Nyesom Wike’s electoral victory, Ojuogbo assured that the PDP would win its current battle in the tribunal to keep its victory in Rivers and Akwa Ibom states despite alleged intimidation.
“Rivers and Akwa Ibom states tribunals are sitting in Abuja, but no amount of intimidation will make the PDP lose the elections it won freely and fairly in these states. Any move to rig us out will be resisted,” he said.
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He also restated the PDP’s opposition to the appointment of Amina Zakari as the acting chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), saying: “We have said that the appointment of Zakari is completely unacceptable to us. The example of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan gave should be followed. We know Zakari is not apolitical.”
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Don Lucassi
July 7, 2015 at 8:09 am
This is what I expected the PDP to do once GEJ gracefully accepted defeat. Well luckily its not too late…I cant guarantee them a victory, but all they can do is put themselves in a position where if Buhari and his government fail, they will be a better alternative. Technically, this government is Buhari’s to lose as he is d leader of the party
Oise
July 7, 2015 at 4:20 pm
It is good for our democracy that PDP is gearing up so early, ahead of 2019. APC has to know that they cannot afford the cocky complacency that PDP displayed for 16 years.
PDP could contribute more to this country in the next four years than they did in the past sixteen years by providing a formidable opposition to the ruling party. But that has to be done without the bitterness that is characteristic of our opposition politics, else it could be counter productive in the end.