Following the crisis rocking the ruling All
Progressives Congress, the Peoples
Democratic Party has said Nigerians will
beg it (PDP) to come back to power in
2019.
The National Vice Chairman, South-South
Zone, of the PDP, Dr. Cairo Ojugbou, made
this remark on Monday at the party’s zonal
secretariat in Port Harcourt, the Rivers
State capital.
Ojugbou, who criticised the APC for not
been able to manage the recent crisis
engulfing it, explained that the ruling party
had shown that it lacked coordination and
ideology.
On the Rivers and Akwa Ibom State
tribunals going on in Abuja, the PDP
national vice chairman expressed optimism
that the PDP would win.
He added that no amount of intimidation
would make the party lose elections that it
won squarely, adding that the people of
Akwa Ibom and Rivers voted for the PDP.
Ojugbou said, “Rivers and Akwa Ibom State
tribunals are sitting in Abuja. 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 disclosed that the PDP has set up a
committee led by the former Kaduna State
Governor, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, adding
that the committee was in Port Harcourt to
receive memorandum on how the party can
get back to power at the centre in the 2019
general elections.
The PDP national vice chairman, however,
restated that stance of his party on the
appointment of Hajia Amina Zakari as the
acting Chairman of the Independent
National Electoral Commission, maintaining
that such an appointment remains
unacceptable.
According to him, “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.”
Speaking on the leadership crisis affecting
the PDP in Bayelsa State, Ojugbou
explained that a committee had been
established to ensure that peace reigned in
the state PDP.