We’ve recovered from election defeat – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party has said it has recovered from
the unprecedented electoral defeat it suffered during the
2015 general elections.
It, therefore, said it has begun moves to recapture power
from the All Progressives Congress in 2019.
It said one of the moves aimed at winning the elections in
the future was the election of the Governor of Ondo State,
Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as the Chairman of the PDP Governors’
Forum.
The party hailed the process that led to Mimiko’s
emergence, saying the development reflects the unity and
sense of purpose within its fold, especially at this rebuilding
time.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary,
Chief Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Saturday, described Mimiko as
a seasoned administrator and a highly organized person, who
is eminently equipped for his new role as the Chairman of
the Forum.
He also commended the governors for their continued
commitment towards the party “as it reengineers and
repositions to regain power in 2019.”
Metuh added that the recent political events in the country
have continued to vindicate the PDP as “the only true
national platform committed to national interest, where all
citizens as equal partners are free to hold opinion and aspire
to any position, no matter how high, without regard to creed,
class or ethnic considerations and in which no individual or
group of individuals can claim ownership or attempt to
appropriate control.”
Stating that the PDP “has since overcome the setback of the
last general elections,” the spokesperson for the opposition
party said as a party founded on the principles of freedom,
equality, justice and national unity, the PDP’s spirit “is still
alive and stronger now more than ever before, in the minds
of most Nigerians and families in all the nooks and crannies
of the country.”
He, therefore, charged its members in all the wards, local
governments and states of the federation to close ranks,
double their efforts and continue to work with their leaders at
all levels to ensure that the PDP comes out stronger to
regain power at the center and in its traditional states come
2019.
Metuh thanked the immediate past Chairman of the Forum,
former Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Sen. Godswill Akpabio,
and other past governors of the PDP for their stewardship,
while urging the present governors to continue to work
together and make PDP states models of development and
good governance in the country.

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