Embattled Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has reiterated his confidence in the ability of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to clinch the Presidency in next year’s general elections.
Saraki made this boast on Wednesday during a meeting with members of the PDP from the 16 local government areas of Kwara state in Ilorin, the state capital.
Saraki also expressed his confidence that the PDP would emerge victorious in all the local government areas of Kwara State.
He reiterated to the Party members how beneficial it will be to them if the PDP emerged victorious at both the Federal and State levels in the 2019 elections while affirming that the fortunes of the PDP is now better than what it once was.
According to Saraki;
“If we emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In the state, with your support we will win the state for PDP. All of you here are the key players in Kwara politics. With unity of purpose, no party can contest with you.
We are here to unite all of us under the party we belong to today. I am assuring all members that there will be equity, internal democracy and justice. It is not going to be winners take all. As far as I am concerned, everybody here today belong to our political structure.
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There is nothing like old or new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). We have all become one PDP. I want all of us to be united for the progress and development of Kwara State. As par the politics of the state, nobody can wrest the power from us if we are united. By the grace of God we will emerge victorious both at the federal and state levels.
We will ensure that we work as one party because we have always worked together before. We will see that all the wards and local governments’ popular candidates emerge based on their popularity and acceptability.”
Saraki then went further to assure the PDP members in Kwara state that there was no concensus or anointed candidates in all the elective positions available.
“I don’t have any anointed candidate at all levels. I don’t have candidates for the state Assembly, National Assembly. It is the person you want in your constituency that I will okay. Don’t allow anybody to deceive you that I have endorsed any candidate,” the Senate President further reiterated while appealing to party leader not to use his name as a blanket to impose unpopular candidates on the party.
“All of us will collectively choose who becomes the next governor. We will ensure that there is no faction, but one PDP. We will ensure that meetings in the local government areas take place in one venue. And we will all work together for the interest of the party,” he said.
Saraki also appealed to all party members to start to prepare the ground for the PDP to emerge victorious in the 2019 elections.