{"id":29235,"date":"2014-07-16T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=29235"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T11:36:44","slug":"2015-presidency-pdp-plan-to-win-in-more-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2015-presidency-pdp-plan-to-win-in-more-states\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Presidency, PDP Plan To Win In More States"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio has said the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is planning to win in the states it lost to other parties during and after the 2011 elections.<\/p>\n<p>The governor spoke yesterday in Abuja after a meeting of some PDP governors and House of Representatives members with President Goodluck Jonathan.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Akpabio, who chairs the PDP Governors\u2019 Forum, addressed State House correspondents at the end of the meeting yesterday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said PDP members in the House of Representatives passed a vote of confidence in Jonathan and endorsed him to run in next year\u2019s Presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThen, after we moved into a further meeting with Mr. President and the PDP governors and members of the National Working Committee (NWC), led by the National Chairman of the party (Alhaji Adamu Mu\u2019azu) , based on the fact that in the next few months, we shall be going into major primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we want to deepen internal democracy and strategise on how best we can win the primaries and, by implication, ensure that we bring out the best candidates, taking a cue from what happened in Ekiti. If we are able to carry out proper internal democracy and bring out the most popular candidates, then the main election will be less rancorous. Of course, the party will sail through with a view to getting up to two-thirds of the states of the federation, as it was when we started in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I came in, there was a period that the PDP had 29 governors. In 2011, we still had 25 governors. Then, some governors tried to defect to other political parties, which they are at liberty to do, because this is democracy. But we are gaining more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we have at least 19 governors with the coming of Ekiti State. We also have three deputy governors who are still with us \u2013 those of Sokoto, Adamawa and Nasarawa states. That brings our number to about 22. 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