Senate
President, Bukola Saraki on Wednesday boasted that the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2019 presidential election.
Saraki said
this in Ilorin at a meeting with PDP members, who came from the 16 local
government areas of the state, NAN reports.
He also
expressed his confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all the
local government areas of Kwara State.
Saraki said
that the victory of PDP at both the federal and the state levels would be
beneficial to all the members in the state.
The Senate
President said that the future of PDP was now brighter than it used to be.
“If we
emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In
the state, with your support we will win the state for PDP.
“All of you
here are the key players in Kwara politics. With unity of purpose, no party can
contest with you.
“We are here
to unite all of us under the party we belong to today. I am assuring all
members that there will be equity, internal democracy and justice.
“It is not
going to be winners take all. As far as I am concerned, everybody here today
belong to our political structure.
“There is
nothing like old or new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). We have all become one
PDP.
“I want all
of us to be united for the progress and development of Kwara State.
“As par the
politics of the state, nobody can wrest the power from us I if we are united.
By the grace of God we will emerge victorious both at the federal and state
levels.
“We will
ensure that we work as one party because we have always worked together before.
“We will see
that all the wards and local governments’ popular candidates emerge based on
their popularity and acceptability,” he said.
He assured
PDP members that there would be no anointed candidates in all the elective
positions.
“I don’t
have any anointed candidate at all levels. I don’t have candidates for the
state Assembly, National Assembly. It is the person you want in your
constituency that I will okay.
“Don’t allow
anybody to deceive you that I have endorsed any candidate,” NAN quoted him as
saying.
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