The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday said it was already strategising to reclaim the presidential seat as well as the seats of the principal officers in 2019 after a major defeat it suffered in 2015 general elections.
The party said it had overcome the defeat it suffered in the previous election, saying it plans to upstage the current ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2019.
The emergence of the Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, as the Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, the party said through its National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh, is one of the strategies adopted to win the 2019 elections.
He explained that the process that brought in Mimiko as the new chairman of the forum showed the maturity of members of the PDP and the unity and sense of purpose within the party. This, Metuh said, would help to re-strengthen the party ahead of future elections.
The described Mimiko as a seasoned administrator and a highly organised person, who is eminently equipped for his new role as the Chairman of the Forum and coordinator of his colleagues.
He also thanked the governors in PDP’s fold for supporting the reengineering and repositioning of the party ahead of 2019.
The statement said the PDP had been vindicated by the current political situation in the country and unfolding events since the APC took over power.
He described 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,” adding that the PDP has since overcome the setback of the last general elections.
Metuh said PDP was founded on the principles of freedom, equality, justice and national unity and that its 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.
The party appealed to all its members from the wards to the national level to continue to keep faith in the party close ranks, double their efforts and continue to work with their leaders at all levels to ensure that it comes out stronger to regain power at the centre and in its traditional states come 2019.
Metuh also appealed to present governors on PDP platform to continue to work together and make PDP states models of development and good governance in the country so that this would give a leeway to the party at the next elections.
