PDP will win 2019 presidential election, says Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday boasted that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win next year’s presidential elections.

He is also confident that his new party will emerge victorious in Kwara State at all levels.

Saraki made the remark in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, at a meeting with PDP members from the wards and 16 local government areas of the state.

He said the victory of the PDP at both federal and state levels would be beneficial to the stakeholders in the state.

The Senate President said the prospects of the opposition party is now brighter than what it used to be.

Saraki said: “If we emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In the state, with your support, we will win. 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 belongs to our political structure.

“There is nothing like old or new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). We have all become one PDP. There is nobody here that will not say one way or the other we have not been together before. I am very sure that the future is bigger and brighter than the past. I want all of us to be united for the progress and development of Kwara State.

He added: “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 in the forthcoming elections, 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. I want to emphasis it that  I don’t have any anointed candidate at all levels. I don’t have candidates for state 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.

“I implore party leaders and elders not to drop my name to impose unpopular candidates. I don’t have candidate for the National Assembly. 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.

Saraki said: “I want to assure you all that as far as I am concerned, everybody belongs to one PDP family and there is no favouritism of one man over the other.

“Please go back home and start the work. I am sure many more will come back and join us, because those that left under the wrong assumption that it will be different from what it used to be.

“They were misled that those coming are out to move them away. Nobody is moving you away, because this place belongs to you too. Let us go back and start working closely together and by the grace of God we will all be victorious.”

“I urge both old and new members of the party to ensure peace and harmony in your wards and local government areas.”

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