President Jonathan, PDP Strategises To Capture More States In 2015 Elections

Akwa Ibom State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, Godswill Akpabio has said that the PDP is already strategizing on how to capture more states during forthcoming 2015 elections.

According to The Nation report, Akpabio disclosed this in the early hours of Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja after a meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan, some governors and House of Representatives members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which held on Monday night.

He said, "We want to deepen internal democracy and want to strategise on how best we can win the primaries and by implication also ensure that we bring out the best candidates, taking a cue from what had happened in Ekiti, that if we are able to carry out proper internal democracy and bring out the most popular candidates, then the main election will be less rancorous and of course the party will sail through with a view to getting two-thirds of the states of the federation as it was when we started in 1999."

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The governor explained that there was a time the PDP had up to 29 governors and in 2011, it dropped to 25 and then some governors defected. He said now they have no fewer than 19 governors and three deputy governors.

"If we shoot to 28 it is not too bad in the 2015 elections," he added.

Yesterday, the House of Representatives Peoples Democratic Party caucus was said to have given President Goodluck Jonathan a vote-of-confidence for his job so far, and also endorsed Jonathan for a second term in office.

Source: Legit.ng