The Nationwide Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Celebration (PDP), Debo Ologunagba, on Tuesday expressed confidence in the way forward for the occasion amid myriads of disaster and continued lack of state governors and different key members to different rival political events.
Mr Ologunagba boasted that the PDP doesn’t want the affect of governors however the public assist of mass of Nigerians to win the 2027 basic elections.
The PDP spokesperson, who appeared on an Come up Information programme, stated, “The power of the PDP is within the folks and that can come to the fore in 2027, whether or not or not there are governors.”
His remarks adopted the defection of the Governor of Enugu State, Peter Mbah, from the PDP to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) earlier on Tuesday.
Mr Mbah’s defection shrunk the variety of states beneath the PDP’s management to only 9 states – Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Taraba, and Zamfara. It has additionally elevated the variety of states managed by the APC to 24.
PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Mbah defected to the APC together with all of the commissioners, elected chairpersons of the state’s 17 native authorities areas, all elected councillors and no less than 80 per cent of the PDP executives within the state.
Mr Ologunagba pressured {that a} day of consequence awaited these abandoning the occasion. He stated, “Folks have gone by this route earlier than; folks have undermined this occasion from inside, and at this time you see them wrestle in one other occasion making an attempt to catch a glimpse, get a face on digicam, on TV due to what they did in PDP. There can be a day of reckoning.
“And Nigerians know, and that’s the reason 2027 goes to be in regards to the authorities, the folks, starvation, insecurity, that can be on the poll. All of those can be transient because it had been, and this occasion will come out robust.”
Nonetheless, he famous that he was not discounting the power of management on the grassroots. Mr Ologunagba additionally stated the curiosity within the affairs of the PDP from the general public confirmed that the occasion was not in a state of “comatose”.
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Regardless of the challenges within the occasion, he expressed hope in its means to beat.
The occasion has continued to face huge defection. In July, 4 senators defected from the PDP to the APC. They’re Francis Fadahunsi (Osun), Olubiyi Fadeyi (Osun), Akon Samson (Akwa-Ibom), and Aniekan Bassey (Akwa Ibom).
APC now has 70 senators, whereas PDP has 28.
Earlier in April this yr, Delta State Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor and PDP’s 2023 Vice Presidential candidate Ifeanyi Okowa, together with their supporters defected to the APC.
Additionally on this yr, former Vice President and the 2023 presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President David Mark and plenty of different notable political determine additionally defected from the PDP to hitch the African Democratic Congress (ADC).
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