I won’t have rest until PDP returns to power, Jonathan vows

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan who lost as incumbent to Nigeria’s current President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, has said that he will not have peace of mind until his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) returns to power.

This was as the former president took responsibility for the PDP defeat in the 2015 presidential election, vowing to ensure above any other thing that his party reclaims power in 2019.

He said, “Whether I like it or not, I must take responsibility for the defeat because I led the party to the election. The only thing that will make me sleep well is to ensure that the PDP comes back to power.”

Jonathan stated this when one of the chairmanship candidates and a chieftain of the PDP, Chief Olabode George and his campaign team paid him a courtesy visit in his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State on Tuesday.

The outcome of the visit was made known to newsmen in a statement Chief George’s media office released after the meeting. The statement also quoted Jonathan as saying that he was working with other stakeholders of the party to make sure that the party was in order so as to realise the aspiration to return to the seat of power in 2019.
The former president, according to the statement, said he preferred to work from the back seat.

George, a former deputy national chairman of PDP, had in his speech earlier during the visit, congratulated Jonathan on his 60th birthday, and urged him to ensure that the PDP emerges stronger from the forthcoming national convention.

He told Jonathan that already there are ripples ahead the party chairmanship election in December 9 as a result of the failure of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee to have a micro-zoning principle to the position.

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Worse still, Chief George decried that the PDP is now drifting owing to the inability of the caretaker chairman, Makarfi, to justify why the principle of zoning the chairmanship position to a specific zone, as has always been the case, was jettisoned.

Chief George, who is on a nationwide campaign for the chairmanship election in December 9, also paid a courtesy call on the Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson at the governor’s office.

 

 

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