PDP Vows To Reclaim Power In 2019

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the focus of the party at the national level is to rebrand the party to reclaim its place at the centre as the largest political party in Africa.
The National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus who stated this at the expanded stakeholders meeting in Government House, Port Harcourt, over the weekend, said the party is already reclaiming its lost ground.
Secondus noted that PDP was able to do this because it has conducted transparent convention, even as the All Progressives Congress (APC) has failed the people and the nation.
According to him,” Nigerians have discovered that APC has failed to deliver on her promises to the people.”
He however, commended Governor Nyesom Wike for insisting recovering the party to the people through transparent democratic processes.
Secondus said the process of giving all aspirants opportunity in the forthcoming local government council polls is for members to seek support from their people.
The PDP boss said the focus of the party at the national level is for power to be decentralised and to make the people make their choices on candidates.
He urged the people to go back to their respective wards and local government areas to deliver their candidates, warning political leaders not to be involved in hand picking candidates.
” We want power to return to the zones, states, local governments and wards”, he said.
It would be recalled that the Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike had declared that imposition of candidates will not be allowed in the party’s during primaries to choose candidates for chairmen of local government and councillors.
Wike said only popular candidates will emerge as the party candidates in the June 16 local government elections.
According to him, ”If we want this party to show Nigerians the difference we must do things in the right way”.
” I have informed the chairman of the party, Brother Felix Obuah that I will quarrel with him if there is any imposition of anybody as the party’s candidate.
The era of god father has gone. We must choose people who have the capacity to represent the people. I will personally supervise the primaries”, he said.