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PDP’s Ex Governors Will Remain Active At The Party – Bukola Saraki

Dr Bukola Saraki

Dr Bukola Saraki

Chairman, New Reconciliation And Strategy Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Bukola Saraki has come out to say that ex-governors in the party are ready to bring in new faces ahead of 2023 election.

He recently revealed this hours after a meeting of the committee with the former governors today.

According to him, former PDP governors are not looking to quit the party, in fact, they are readily available to regularly have their say on matters concerning PDP.

He added that outspoken ex-leaders are needed at the party because their silence can sometimes be misinterpreted.

His words, “We have gotten their assurances that they are not going anywhere; instead they are going to bring in more people. Yesterday (Tuesday), we met with our former President. Today (Wednesday), we are consulting with our former governors who are our key stakeholders.”

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The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is a major contemporary political party in Nigeria. Its policies generally lie towards the centre-right of the political spectrum. It won every Presidential election between 1999 and 2011, and was until the 2015 elections, the governing party in the Fourth Republic although in some cases, amid a few controversial electoral circumstances. Currently, PDP controls 14 states out of 36 states in Nigeria.

In 1998 the PDP in its first presidential primary election held in Jos, Plateau State, North Central Nigeria norminated former military leader Olusegun Obasanjo who had just been released from detention as political prisoner as the presidential candidate in the elections of February 1999, with Atiku Abubakar (Governor-Elect of Adamawa State and a former leading member of the Social Democratic Party) as his running mate. They won the presidential election and were inaugurated 29 May, 1999.

The longtime slogan of the People’s Democratic Party has been “Power to the people”. During the party’s National Convention in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on 21 May 2016, David Mark, a former President of the Senate of Nigeria, introduced “Change the change” as the party’s campaign slogan for the 2019 general elections.



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