Governorship elections: PDP will win Lagos, Rivers, Imo 21 other states says Muazu

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Adamu Mu’azu, has
projected that his party will win Lagos, Rivers, Imo and 21 other states
in the forthcoming, April 11, governorship elections.

Muazu disclosed this in a press statement released on Saturday, where he
listed states the party must win.

According to him, the gubernatorial election next week would certainly
provide the PDP a soft-landing after conceding the presidency to the All
Progressives Congress in the presidential election on March 28.

“I urge the PDP faithful to pick up the pieces and ensure that we return
quickly to our old winning ways. There should be no room for voter apathy
that was a major factor to our losing the presidential election,” Mr.
Mu’azu said.

“While our opponents were savouring their famous victory, we should out
flank them and corner at least two thirds of the states of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria.

“This is not an impossible target if we return to our elements with
immediate effect. We have done it before and we can do it again. Nothing
will be sweeter than PDP taking Lagos, our own Rivers State and Imo. Our
candidates in these states are first class material who have fully
penetrated the political structures of those states and are set to win.”

The chairman said the party’s target is to retain the 21 states it
currently leads “and then sink our teeth into the heart of our political
opponents and show that their presidential victory is nothing more than a
one-off that won’t be repeated in a long while.”

He recounted that earlier in the week, he reminded the PDP gubernatorial
candidates in all the states that one thing that won’t happen in this
gubernatorial race is the “so called bandwagon effect.”
He stressed, “The reason is simple. Our party is used to bouncing back
whenever we experience a setback.”

Mr. Mu’azu said the PDP in the past 16 years of democracy has maintained
fair play consistently and that even the APC admitted this in its response
to President Goodluck Jonathan’s speech conceding to president-elect
General Muhammadu Buhari.

He stated, “The key to winning the remaining election is heavy turnout and
voting the PDP all the way. There should be no tactical voting. Be
consistent in your support for the party. What we experienced in the
presidential election is merely a hiccup, which we must cast out, in the
gubernatorial polls.

“All PDP supporters must remember their pedigree, our track record and
history of the party and the source of our electoral feats of the last
sixteen years. We are the reason that democracy has taken root in Nigeria
since 1999. This is something every member of our great party should be
very proud of.

“We have only lost a battle but the war to bring our country to the
highest level of democratic governance is still to be won or lost. Our
governorship candidates should go out and finish the good fight and come
up trumps in the remaining gubernatorial and houses of assembly election
on 11th April. We are remaining the winning party and by God’s special
grace we shall win again and again.”