PDP Coming Back Stronger In 2019 – Jonathan

Former President Goodluck Jonathan says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will come back stronger and take over power in 2019.

Jonathan said this on Wednesday while receiving former vice-president Atiku Abubakar who paid a courtesy call on him at his Otuoke residence in Bayelsa State.

The ex-president was optimistic that the PDP is now better positioned to regain power from the All Progressives Congress in next year’s poll.

“I believe PDP is coming back and getting stronger,” Jonathan said.

“Yes, we had some issues in 2015. But as you know politics is a very dynamic business. Even though we are in the opposition with fewer governors, PDP is still the strongest and largest party.”

On his part, Abubakar, who expressed disappointment with the current administration, said there is no party in the country with the structure and strength like the PDP.

“It is actually the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that has the strength and structure to get back to Aso Rock, without PDP, APC should not have been in Aso Rock,” he said.

“Have we ever had this rate of unemployment and poverty in Nigeria? Have we ever had five sets of exchange rate before in this country? Have we ever had so much insecurity like this before? No! Have we ever been this divided before in this country? No!”

Abubakar, who re-joined the PDP in December 2017, is aspiring to run for the Nigeria’s president in 2019 under the platform of the main opposition party.