The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said that it was looking to win more states in the Saturday, April 11, 2015 governorship and state elections, regardless of the loss the party recorded in the recently concluded presidential election.
Speaking on Thursday, April 9, 2015, the National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, who spoke via a statement said the party had mobilized its members and supporters across the country in order to avoid a repeat of the visible anomalies that characterised the Saturday, March 28, 2015.
He said: “We restate that we are ready for this round of elections and we will do everything humanly possible within the tenets of democracy to protect our votes and resist any form of irregularity including underage voting and selective malfunctioning of card readers. We therefore charge security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to be vigilant and make sure that the elections are free, fair and credible.
“Our confidence for victory is derived from the fact that the people are happy with the exemplary performance and verifiable achievements of various PDP governments across the country for which they are desirous and ready to return all our governorship and state assembly candidates into power for continuity,” the party said.
“We are also assured that our two returning governors, Ibrahim Dankwambo and Mukhtar Yero of Gombe and Kaduna States respectively will lead other PDP governorship candidates to record overwhelming victory at the polls as their people have expressed strong desire to retain them in power because of their exceptional performance in the last four years.
“Finally, we assure our candidates and supporters across board that we will stand by them all the way to ensure that nobody under any guise whatsoever steals our votes and get away with it.”
