BEVERLY HILLS, November 23, (THEWILL) – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that his priority now is to ensure that his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), regains the Presidency in 2019.
Jonathan said this when Chief Olabode George and his campaign team paid him a courtesy visit in his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, saying he was taking responsibility for the party’s defeat in the 2015 election.
He declared that having led the party to the defeat, it was also his responsibility to ensure that the party rose again as a strong political platform to win the next elections.
“Whether I like it or not, I must take responsibility for the defeat because I led the party to the election,” he said.
“The only thing that will make me sleep well is to ensure that PDP comes back to power.
The former President said he was working with other stakeholders to ensure that the party was well organised to achieve this purpose though he preferred to work from the back seat.
He said the party must begin to take the right steps in the right direction to regain the confidence of the electorate, adding that the mistakes of the past would not be repeated.
On his part, George, a former deputy National Chairman of the PDP who is currently on a nationwide campaign for the chairmanship election in December, congratulated the former president on his 60th birthday anniversary.
He also urged the ex-President, as the leader of the party, to ensure that the PDP emerge stronger from the forthcoming national convention.
George, however, lamented that the party appeared to be drifting with the failure to apply the micro-zoning principle to the PDP chairmanship position.
He insisted that there was no reasonable justification offered by the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee for jettisoning the principle, which he said had caused ripples capable of dividing the party.
George also paid a courtesy call on Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State at the governor’s office where he commended the governor for sustaining the confidence, goodwill and support of the people in his administration and the party.
