PDP must provide better choice for Nigerians – IBB

Abuja

Former military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to learn from the current political development in the country with a view to providing a better choice for Nigerians when it assumes power in 2019.
A statement yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Kola Ologbondiyan, quoted Babangida to have spoken in Minna on Saturday while receiving members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of PDP led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus,
The statement said Babangida also expressed satisfaction with the rebranding so far achieved by the party ahead of the 2019 general elections.
“I am happy at your assurances that there will be no imposition in all your primary elections. It is all about choice and you have promised to provide the best choice,” he said.
Commending the elective National Convention of the PDP, the former president noted that not a few Nigerians believed that the national convention would hold, adding however that the outcome was successful.
“Your ‘reposition, rebrand and regain’ agenda is working and I mean particularly the rebranding. Some people believed that, having been in government since 1999, the PDP will find opposition difficult but you are carrying on well and providing a better alternative.
“You have also not abandoned the people in times of crisis. I monitored your activities in Benue, Taraba and you just said your party has sent members to Zamfara to commiserate with the people. Surely you have made the people the centre of your return and they will not forget you because you were with them in time of sorrow.
Earlier, in the meeting, PDP National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, had told Babangida that former leaders of our nation must rally together to save our nation from the current administration.
He lamented the killings and economic hardships, which Nigerians contend with on daily basis, stressing that the country had never witnessed the type of division “our people are currently facing.”

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