Former
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday, said he was happy with the plans
of the Peoples Democratic Party to regain the presidency come 2019.
Jonathan and PDP stakeholder in Abuja on Monday
While speaking when he hosted stakeholders of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) at his Abuja residence on Monday, former
President Goodluck Jonathan, described the loss of the 2015 general
election as a temporary setback for the party, adding that he was happy
with the plans of the party to regain the presidency.
According to TheCable News, the Otuoke, Baylesa-born politician,
said the PDP remains the strongest political party in Nigeria, and that
every other party knows that “PDP is leading”.
He said; “Yes we lost the presidential election but that doesn’t diminish us. Every other party still knows that PDP is a leading party.
“Losing the presidency is something temporary. We should be
able to get that position back as long as we are able to get our acts
together. I am happy that you people are working towards that,” he said, adding that he had the strong belief that for a nation to grow, its institutions must be very strong.
The former president also said direct primary, especially under
presidential system of government, was the ultimate and best way of
selecting candidates for elections, adding that the greatest problem was
how to manage the direct primaries.
Jonathan said for a party like PDP, with true membership across all
polling units, it meant that voting would take place at wards or local
government levels.
“The best way to stop imposition is to make sure that people
don’t control the delegates. How to select delegate is that at least 70
percent of the delegates should not be under the control of anybody,” he said
Jonathan said if the party could not do direct primary, it should
make sure that it increased the number of statutory delegates with
people who had held elected or party offices at different levels.
He said the party could come up with criteria where its national
chairman, state chairmen, senators and others in offices that controlled
the government were made statutory delegates.
“All these group of people if they are still in the party should be automatic delegates,” he said.
“These are people that are known by everybody and nobody can go and manipulate them or their names.
“By the time we have a reasonable number of statutory delegates
who are more than 75 per cent of total delegates that will vote, then,
it will be difficult for somebody to go and manipulate the list.”
Jonathan commended the committee for the report as well as the
caretaker committee under the leadership of Ahmed Makarfi, a former
governor.
“This is the only way to strengthen political parties. It is a clear sign that PDP will win in 2019,” he said.
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