PDP won’t die, says Niger State governor, Aliyu

DESPITE the mass defection of members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to All Progressives Congress (APC), Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has given assurance that the PDP will not die, saying the party will bounce back in 2019 to take what it lost in this year’s elections.

Aliyu, who gave the assurance when the PDP Governorship Campaign Organisation led by the Director-General, Alhaji Aminu Yusuf Wushishi, and accompanied by the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Umar Nasko, visited him in Government House in Minna, said that PDP would meet at states and federal levels to correct its mistakes ahead of 2019 general elections.

He said: “Our party is not dead. When all things cool down, we will properly re-organise to bring PDP back to its formidable political strength.

Many things have happened and this is not the time for us to apportion blames. “I, therefore, hope that the time we will have to re-organise our party, we would add more ideology to what we have.

Let me urge you to stop thinking you have failed. In terms of elections, particularly the time we found ourselves, it went beyond the limits of individuals’ effort.” On the general outcome of the 2015 elections, the Niger governor expressed satisfaction, saying that the elections were free and fair, devoid of any electoral violence.

He, therefore, thanked Niger State electorate for conducting themselves in the most peaceful manner before, during and after the elections. Speaking, Wushishi commended Governor Aliyu’s political maturity in the way and manner he took the elections despite the fact that the results were not in favour of the party. He said he exhibited the character of a good leader.

Wushishi, who urged Aliyu not to be dismayed by the outcome of the just-concluded elections, said he had done well in the area of providing dividend of democracy to the people, adding that the challenge was the fact that Nigeria’s electorate were conclusive in the area of voting for a particular political party regardless of their candidate. “We will continue to be with you wherever you go. You can always count on us whenever you need us.

We have seen your work in all the 25 local councils of Niger State. May God continue to bless and guide you in your future endeavour”, he said.