The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party said on Tuesday that the party did not prepare for defeat in the last general elections. The defeat was the first to be suffered by the party, which had been controlling the government at the centre since the country returned to democracy in 1999. Apart from losing the Presidential election to the All Progressives Congress, the PDP was also defeated in many states which it had been controlling for 16 years. Speaking in his office in Abuja on Tuesday when the Resident Country Director of International Republican Institute, Mr. Senten Barnes, paid him a courtesy call at the party’s national secretariat, the Acting Chairman of the now opposition party, Prince Uche Secondus, said the defeat came to the PDP as a surprise. He said, “We were so used to winning in the past 16 years. We never prepared for defeat and so when it came, we were surprised. “Now, we should know that money is not everything. Then, we were wrong. Selling of documents (by workers of the party) should stop. “The party will train members of staff in collaboration with IRI, and our workers must be careful against the sale of documents to outsiders. “The party must now go to the people. We need serious training and we would work with the IRI for the training.” The chairman also stressed that the era of automatic tickets for aspirants vying for elective positions was over. Secondus said that the decision to embark on biometric membership registration had shown that the era of few moneybags controlling the party had become a thing of the past. He urged members to pay their dues as the party leadership had decided to take the PDP back to the people. He said, “The era of ‘automatic tickets, no vacancy’ is over as this is not in our constitution. “We want to eliminate influence or what is called moneybags. In Kogi, the governor was threatened by other aspirants. There would be no automatic tickets for anybody.” He vowed that the national leadership of the opposition party would return the party to the people by organising error-free primaries. He also said that the party would not be financed by individuals anymore. Secondus said, “Our intention is to make our primaries zero expensive so that nobody will induce anybody. “My agenda is to revolutionise the party so that the idea of moneybags controlling the party will be eliminated. “We want every member to participate in the party activities by paying their dues. Through this, we can eliminate the class syndrome and bring the party to the people.”

not too late to prepare

Who does?

Who normally prepares for defeat?



We'd be back!


You guys should jejely merge with APGA,LP and accord, and change your name. Make sure you don't admit all those who left.

Keep the opposition real!


Yes, I'm wailing.

So what's should we do now that you lost?

“The era of ‘automatic tickets, no vacancy’ is over as this is not in our constitution. “We want to eliminate influence or what is called moneybags.

This is very important. A party like PDP need to do away with internal impunity.

You were there for 16 years and failed Nigerians, so they voted you out. Buhari may not necessarily be the messiah Nigerians wanted but right now, PDP gave Nigerians no other option than to push them out of power in the face of massive corruption and executive rascality.

PDP should learn and come out strong in 2019 if they feel the change Buhari brought isn't worth it !

You need to start preparing for ur aftermath then. Due to your negligence, see where u av put Nigerians? Bunch of fools taking our money to another people's country to develop theirs. Fools

And APC didn't prepare for winning

Water don pass garri

They never chi chomtin!

Kai

Too late to cry when the head is cut off!

PDP was not prepared for defeat but GEJ was prepared for it.

We can aptly see the handwriting of the PDP unpreparedness for their defeat from the likes of father Fayose, bro Wike, sis Diezani, Uncle Metuh and their co wailers whereas Jonathan preparedness can be noticed from his concession of defeat before results, his calm and collected dispositions.

Codedb2:
And APC didn't prepare for winning

Did you begin to walk the day you were born,? chill, don't rush....good things are gwan.

PDP pls stop this self pity.

Lol. Comedy. These people may have codedly taken to offering comic relief as a way of assuaging the almost two decades of pains they have inflicted on Nigerians. That's the only logical explanation of their insanity.

Bluetooth2:


You were there for 16 years and failed Nigerians, so they voted you out. Buhari may not necessarily be the messiah Nigerians wanted but right now, PDP gave Nigerians no other option than to push them out of power in the face of massive corruption and executive rascality.

PDP should learn and come out strong in 2019 if they feel the change Buhari brought isn't worth it !

I can assure you that before or in 2019, PDP would be the party campaigning for BUHARI re-election. It will be so sweet that even nnamdi will convert radio biafra to radio BUHARI with himself as the director shouting Apc to his blind followers.



By God's grace, it won't be that bad after 4 years of BUHARI for us to revert back to pdp.

misspresident:
PDP pls stop this self pity.

What else is there ?

Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Ok sorry. Next time be prepared

It's now that PDP just realised how utterly useless they've been, anyway better late than never.

cool

Now that the PDP have made an open confession of not being prepared for a defeat, they are equally and indirectly telling us that they are not even ready and prepared for to play and be a credible opposition party. This goes to show the truth in what Lai Mohammed has been saying about the PDP and its spokesman, Olisah Metu. Laid Mohammed said just last few days that Mr Olisah Metu, the PDP spokesman is untrainable after offering him a crash program on how to be a good spokesman for d the PDP which he Metu refused to accept. Mr Laid Mohammed went further to advice the PDP not to rely on Metu for their survival as a party again.

size40:
Now that the PDP have made an open confession of not being prepared for a defeat, they are equally and indirectly telling us that they are not even ready and prepared for to play and be a credible opposition party. This goes to show the truth in what Lai Mohammed has been saying about the PDP and its spokesman, Olisah Metu. Laid Mohammed said just last few days that Mr Olisah Metu, the PDP spokesman is untrainable after offering him a crash program on how to be a good spokesman for d the PDP which he Metu refused to accept. Mr Laid Mohammed went further to advice the PDP not to rely on Metu for their survival as a party again.

and the irony is that APC too was/is not prepare to win and govern. Contrasting fortunes for two who ain't prepared for them. We are in really deep trouble with incompetence on both sides governance and opposition! The most scary is that of governance.

modath:



Did you begin to walk the day you were born,? chill, don't rush....good things are gwan.

Meaning we have to give him 5yrs