PDP Will Win 2019 Presidential Election - Jonathan

Former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan says that current efforts at reforming the party are “a clear sign” the PDP will win in 2019.

According to him, although the party lost in the 2015 elections and failed to win the presidency seat, the failure however did not diminish the party.

The former president said this on Monday in Abuja while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of the PDP.

We lost the Presidency but that does not diminish PDP. Every other party in Nigeria also know that PDP is still the number one party.” Jonathan receives PDP delegates “I think losing the presidency is temporary; we should be able to get that position back,” Dr. Jonathan said.

Chairman and leader of the delegation committee, Professor Jerry Gana while thanking the former president said that apart from meeting with leaders of the party, they would also reach out to other political parties of like minds with a view to forming a merger. 

He said the party had taken steps towards ensuring it emerges victorious in the coming 2019 Presidential elections.

Since the PDP is already on the ground and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has emerged, we thought we should reach out to all the other parties that are friendly with the PDP,” he said. 

Professor Gana also said that the committee had met with seven of the other parties, and that the National Conscience Party as well as two others have expressed their willingness to merge with the PDP.

Jonathan said for a party like PDP, with true membership across all polling units, it meant that voting would take place at wards or local government levels.

He continued “The best way to stop imposition is to make sure that people don’t control the delegates.