The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed confidence that it will take over the mantle of leadership from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023, regardless of the poaching of its governors and party stalwarts.
The statement was disclosed by the national chairman of the party, Uche Secondus in Abuja on Tuesday.
His statement comes after the defection of a PDP Governor, Bello Mattawalle of Zamfara State to APC on Tuesday.
Mattawalle joined his Cross River counterpart, Ben Ayade, who moved to the APC about a month ago.
Channels TV reports that Secondus accused the APC of prioritizing poaching and intimidating its governors to join the ruling party, over repositioning the country’s economy and making life better for Nigerians.
“We stand here to state clearly that we will form the next government come 2023 because of the masses, not the governors who are leaving the PDP,.
“I have never seen a country where you have an economic crisis, [and] insecurity then the ruling party goes poaching governors… it is a shame that all the governors left for fear; they were intimidated by the instrument of the government of the APC,” the PDP leader noted while lamenting the level of hardship in Africa’s populous nation.
“They are going after our governors but we are going after the masses of this country, the people who are suffering under this government. And that is the difference,” he said.
