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‘APC is dead before 2019″- former gov Kure
… PDP will come out of it’s leadership crisis, stronger
Olabode Adaramola, Minna
Former Niger state Governor and member, board of trustees of the People Democratic Party(PDP), Engineer Abdulkadir Abdullahi Kure has given an assurance that the current leadership crisis bedevilling the party will soon be overcome as the reconciliation move by the elders of the party is beginning to yield result.
Engineer Kure disclosed this in Minna on Saturday evening when PDP elders and stakeholders from zone c senatorial district in the state, led by the former Minister of state for foreign affairs , Alhaji Abubakar Achituwo and the party gubernatorial aspirant in the 2015 election in the state, Alhaji Hannafi Susan paid him a courtesy visit in his home.
He informed his guests which included all former and present national and state houses of assembly members, chairmen of local government and counsel lord from the zone that already the Modu Sherif led faction has agreed to embrace peace for the overall interest of the party.
He said the party will come out of the current leadership crisis stronger and will avoid the type of crisis that led to it loosing the 2015 general election, saying that the party will take it rightful place in the Nigeria politics come 2019.
Kure told the PDP members from the zone that the party has a lot of lesson to learn from the experience of 2015 where “PDP defeated PDP” and gave birth to the current change which has put Nigeria in its worst economic situation in it 56 years of existence as a nation.
According to him, “all the PDP members who left the party and ensure the party loose the 2015 general election are not comfortable where they are today. They are not finding things easy at the moment”.
He argued that everything that PDP was accused of doing in the past is exactly what is happening today and even worst, adding that “they said PDP postponed election to Rig, today we saw election being postponed and rigged”.
He said that the current crisis in the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) is worst than that of PDP with over five factions and groups are already in existence, saying that “if they said PDP is a dying party, I think APC is already dead before 2019”.
“Today we have in the APC, Tinubu faction, Amaechi faction, Atiku faction, Bukola Saraki faction and the rest of them. But we in PDP have just one faction and we have already overcome it, we will now wait and see how they will overcome their factional problems”.
Kure pointed out that what the party needs as 2019 approaches, is unity and understanding among all the party members, assuring them that the zoning arrangement of the party will still be kept, as the zone c would be allowed to produce the next governor of the state come 2019.
