As the Ondo State governorship election has come and gone, a People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Chief Emeka Charles Kalu, has stressed the need for unity in the party if it will record victory in the 2023 general elections.
Kalu, the National Coordinator of the Peoples Democratic Party Coalition (PDPCO) and a member of the party’s National Campaign Council Mobilisation Sub-Committee, in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday, maintained that although there were allegations of vote buying by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the PDP candidate, Eyitayo Jegede, lost mainly because of the disunity among the party leaders and members in the South West.
He maintained that while several parties’ agents allegedly compromised during the election, it was clear that Jegede did not get enough support of PDP stalwarts in the South West as well as those of the party’s governors, even before the election.
The PDP chieftain called for a change of attitude among the party’s hierarchy if they want to reclaim power from the ruling APC administration in the centre and win several states during the 2023 general elections.
Kalu stressed: “I have always said it that without unison, the party can never clinch power come 2023. We still practice politics of bitterness and this is drawing us back.
“Look at other developed countries that practice democracy. Once a candidate emerges, everyone gives him full backing till the election ends. They swim and sink with the candidate.
“But, this is not so here. The party leaders abandoned the Jegede project for some political reasons best known to them.
“Here, instead of supporting that candidate and campaign with the manifesto, people go on campaign based on what the candidate can offer. When they do not see what they can get, they wash their hands off the candidate. This attitude is very wrong.
“As we are getting ready for the 2023 general elections, I want to stress that there is the need for us to do those things that will benefit the party, rather than individual interests.
“That is the only way our party can return to power come 2023 and deliver real democracy dividends to Nigerians who are tired of the failed promises of the current ruling party, APC.”
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