PDP Will Not Present President Jonathan As Its Candidate In 2019 - Chief Ebenezer Babatope

 

Chief Ebenezer Babatope, member board of trustee of PDP while speaking with newsmen yesterday stated that PDP will not feature the outgoing President Jonathan as its presidential candidate in 2019.

 

Babatope said, instead the party would shop for a strong Hausa/Fulani candidate who will run against Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 presidential election.

 

He described President Jonathan as a leader who has uplifted the nation’s democracy and that history will forever remember him as a leader who kept Nige

ria as one despite several challenges.

With further reference to 2019, Babatope said, ‘’We have a strong presence in the South-South, South-East and we have two governors in the South-West. We are going to slug it out together in the North in 2019. We are going to flush out the APC in 2019 because we are going to correct our mistakes and take back the central government.”

The former Minister of Transport said PDP’s National Executive Council, the BoT and Elders’ Caucus would meet soon in Abuja to assess the outcome of the general elections.

 

He said, “We are going to restructure our party. The National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, will convene a meeting in two weeks’ time when we will objectively discuss the last elections.

 

“Apart from the grand conspiracy against our party by the powers that be in the elections, we are going to tackle the problem of imposition, which was a great area of mistake on our side. Crises were recorded across the states over imposition. We are going to guard against this. The APC will, naturally, make its own mistakes and we will capitalise on these.

 

“It is given in politics that mistakes would occur among the ruling party. We will all see when this begins to happen. We are watching and waiting.”