Hehehe...okooo...the newly-elected Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Ondo’s Olusegun Mimiko, on
Thursday said that the opposition party would regain power at the centre
come 2019.
Mimiko said the PDP had in fact
commenced the process of taking back power from the All Progressives
Congress during the next general elections.
He said this at the Akure airport during
a mini-reception organised for him on his return from Abuja, where he
was voted as the new PDP governors’ chairman on Wednesday.
Mimiko
said the governors were determined to give the PDP a new face as the
opposition party, pledging that the party’s engagement of the ruling APC
would be robust and offer alternative policy platform and programmes
for the country.
He said the PDP governors had resolved
to collectively work assiduously and excel in governance with a view to
re-branding the party and selling it to all Nigerians.
He said, “We must sustain enthusiasm in
our party; and as governors who have pivotal roles to play in
re-branding our party, we must show in governance term the difference
between us and the APC and these are the challenges ahead of us.
“As opposition party, our engagement
will be robust; we must offer alternative policy platform and programme
when we criticise one. We must show Nigerians that we are a different
party. We will not be abusive in opposing the government and we will
praise where it is worthy of praise and criticise in a very robust
manner”
He said that the PDP in Ondo State had
reached an appreciable level of repositioning and that the party was
“overwhelmingly” in charge in the state.
The Speaker of the Ondo State House of
Assembly, Jumoke Akindele, noted at the reception that the emergence of
Mimiko as the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum was well deserved.
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