Nigerians Will Beg PDP to Return in 2019 as APC Fails

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that All Progressives Congress (APC) has shown lack of coordination and ideology in handling the national issues, adding that Nigerians will beg the PDP to come back in 2019.

Cairo Ojougboh, vice-chairman of the party in the south-south, also ridiculed the ruling party over its inability to resolve the crisis tearing it apart.

Ojuogbo said his party would return to power because the APC is crisis-ridden, alluding to the disagreement in the ruling party over the National Assembly leadership.

He said the APC does not only lack the capacity to manage the crisis, but that it lacks coordination and ideology.

He stated that a panel headed by a former governor of Kaduna State, Ahmed Makarfi, to work out how the PDP can regain power at the centre during the 2019 general elections had been set up.

The national vice chairman assured that the PDP would win its current battle in the tribunal to keep its victory in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State despite alleged intimidation.

“Rivers and Akwa Ibom State tribunals are sitting in Abuja,”  Ojougbo said. “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 restated the PDP’s opposition to the appointment of Amina Zakari as the acting Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission.

He said, “We have said that the appointment of Amina is completely unacceptable to us. The example that ex-President (Goodluck) Jonathan gave should be followed. We know Amina is not apolitical.”

Ojougboh who was speaking at the secretariat of the PDP in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers state on Monday, said that a committee led by Ahmed Makarfi, former governor of Kaduna state, has visited the PDP’s secretariat in the south-south to receive memorandum on how the party can emerge victorious in the 2019 general election.