‘PDP’ll Produce Saraki’s Replacement’

A chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Robinson Dumnamene, has predicted that the former ruling party has a good chance to return to power in 2019.
The member of the House of Representatives, whose election, along with others from Rivers State was annulled and the rerun poll suspended in March, said what PDP bigwigs should do was to drop individual differences and work for the common good ahead of the next general election.
“PDP has a very clear chance in 2019. What we need to do as a party is to get PDP bonded,” he explained.
“I can tell you authoritatively that a whole lot of those people you see in the APC today will definitely return to the PDP. This is because they can’t find what they expected to see in the APC.
“With what is happening in the government of the APC at the national level, with a little more work, PDP will take back power in 2019”, he stated.
On the trial of Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, Dumnamene said that the PDP would capitalise on the issue to produce the next President of the Senate.
“It is very possible. But looking at the issue of Saraki, you will no doubt see that there is so much political undertone. Those are the things we talk about in this country – political witch-hunt.
“Look at the so-called fight against corruption, it is skewed. Saraki did not emerge the Senate president from the mainstream APC. With what is going on now, one can say that there is witch-hunt.
“Crimes that had been committed many years ago are being brought up now. Whichever way it goes, the PDP caucus in the Senate is very organized and focused, and has what it takes to produce the next Senate president”, he added.