2023: PDP Chairman, Iyorchia Ayu, Says Losing In 2015, Good For Party

By Akinwale Kasali

The New National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Iyorchia Ayu, said the opposition Party would have been dictatorial if it did not lose the 2015 Presidential Election to the party at the center, All Progressives Congress, APC.

Ayu, alongside stalwarts and members of the Party, have been restrategizing, aligning and realigning to take back power from the APC in the forthcoming elections.

Speaking with Journalists, the former Senate President said the PDP could have become complacent if it didn’t lose power in 2015, but the Party is presently re-energising towards taking back power and control more than 20 States.

The Benue State born Politician admonished Nigerians to be ready to defend their votes in 2023 having experienced what the ruling party could offer in the last six years.

“My priority is for the party to take power. Political parties priorities is always to win. Therefore, I reviewed the reasons why we lost power in 2015 and going to work to unite the party, to sharpen the programmes of the party, market the party to the Nigerian electorate in a way that they will be prepared to vote for us.

“In a democracy, it’s normal for political parties to lose power. If we didn’t lose power, may be, we would have become a dictatorship or become complacent.

“To believe in democracy…there must have been something we were doing wrong or must have done wrong that the Nigerian electorate shifted. But today, if we didn’t lose power, they won’t experience the policies and programmes of the other party. They would think there is something better than us. Thank God, we lost power. Today, Nigerian people know better.

“And I believe we will re-energize the party and take over power again, not only at the centre, but in Nigeria, there is a lot of attention taking power at the Federal level. There was a time PDP was controlling about 20 states. That has been reduced to 13.

“We hope and pray and we will work very hard to increase that number from 13 to control over 20 states, possibly, we will win the federal government. So, that is really my vision for this party. We will unite the party as I have said and I believe that very soon, we will have a very united, a very focused political party”, it stated.

In the same vein, Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu, the PDP National Secretary has said Imo State, South East and Nigeria in general will be witnessing another political tsunami that will mark the end of the reign of the APC, in few days from now.

Anyanwu, who represented Imo East in the 8th Assembly, said the PDP in Imo State is set to receive over 30,000 APC members into the party.

He said that the decampees are made up of elected, and appointed political office holders in the state and beyond with their supporters.

The erstwhile Senate Committee Chairman on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions disclosed in a release signed by his Special Adviser on Media Ikenna Onuoha, that there will be a tsunami that will bring an end to the selective governance of the APC in the State and South East geopolitical zone, noting that his emergence few days ago as National Secretary has opened more vistas for the party.

“Prior to my endorsement as consensus candidate and subsequent emergence as National Secretary of PDP, most power brokers in the state, South East and Nigeria at large had assured me of their willingness to rejoin our party with their numerous supporters if I became the Chief Scribe of PDP.”

“Today, they have met all necessary conditions for their decamping. I want to reliably tell you that Imo state, South East and Nigeria, in general, will be witnessing another political tsunami that will mark the end of APC reign.”

Anyanwu, therefore, appealed to those furious with the APC maladministration to use this opportunity to join PDP, adding that such unity will rescue the society from the orchestrated pains, anguish and starvation.