The Chairman of the 2017 People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Special Non-Elective National Convention and Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that the party is set to take over power at the national level in 2019.
Okowa made the disclosure just as former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode vowed that the PDP will remove President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo from office come 2019 general elections.
Mr. Okowa stated this on Wednesday at the meeting of the Convention Planning Committee at the party’s national secretariat, Abuja noting that the party has realized areas where they did not meet up with the expectations of Nigerians and has vowed to make corrections and provide Nigerians with good governance, anchored on accountability, rule of law and improved welfare of the citizenry.
Okowa said, “We have been inaugurated with the task of organizing a successful National Convention for our great party. It is our hope that the various committees will set out to work immediately as we have barley few days to go.
“As an organized party, I’ve confidence in our leaders of the various sub-committees that we will be able to deliver a successful National Convention that we can all be proud of.
“I trust in your abilities because I have seen a good number of committed party members who are dedicated to the cause of ensuring we return back to power in 2019,”
“Our party is back alive and with the National Convention, PDP will send a very strong message that will make Nigerians to realize that we are very much ready to take over power come 2019,” he said
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Members of the planning committee including Kelechi Igwe, John Jonah, Deputy Governors of Ebonyi and Bayelsa States, and Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen, Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of all the Sub-Committees attended the meeting.
Meanwhile, Chief Fani-Kayode who spoke on Channels TV’s ‘Politics Today’, said the PDP has put its house together and will manage its success well to ensure it takes over power from the Buhari-led government.
Asked if the PDP has got the moral integrity to appeal to Nigerians, Fani-Kayode said the morality question is more deserving for the APC-led government.
“The Nigerian people have moved past the lies and propaganda of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and with what is happening in the country in the last two years, I think those in APC have more question of morality to answer.
“We did a lot in 16 years and we have nothing to be ashamed of, one quarter of APC today is made up of former members of the PDP and they also formed the integral part of the previous sixteen years led by PDP”
“We are moving towards victory, throw the question of morality, decency to the ruling government, Nigerians are tired of mass murder, carnage under them, PDP will ensure Nigerians are united and can breathe again” he said.
Commenting on some of the mild crisis rocking PDP, Fani-Kayode said such is not peculiar to PDP, stressing that every political party have one or two issues they are facing.
“PDP is a big family and of course we can’t do without such. Everyone knows what APC tried to do with our party through its agents who were planted in our midst to hijack our party structure, if we could have survived one and half years of the ruthless onslaught of APC, we will march to victory come 2019.
“We are fully back on course, we have our party together and it is only left for us to manage our success and ensure we inflict what Donald Trump called, fire and fury on the APC in 2019.
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