President Goodluck Jonathan on thursday questioned the recent concluded election that saw Buhari as the winner. He said that the PDP was marginalized based on the electioneering conduct of the just concluded exercise. He further stated that PDP couldn't have got the kind of score they were given after the election. But, one could say that this is coming very late, as the PDP have already accepted defeat. In his words to express his feeling at the just concluded election, here is his excerpts:
“The PDP is still the dominant party. If
you look at the results, the difference is just 2.5 million votes and
if you look at the areas where it is perceived that the PDP scored so
low, the PDP couldn’t have got those kinds of scores but the elections
are over, so the country first.
“It is not as if Jonathan alone made the
sacrifice, it is all of us. I made the pronouncement but some of us are
paying the price.
“Some people pay more price than I do, I know how some of you are already being persecuted and the kind of situation facing you.
“The key thing is that we must continue
to unite, as a party; we must continue to work hard so that as we go
into subsequent elections in 2019, 2023 and so on and so forth, the PDP
will continue to come up strong. Even in the interest of the nation, we
need the PDP.
“I still believe, though we have lost
presidential election, some National Assembly elections, governorship
elections especially in the North, the PDP is still the dominant party.
“Let us not judge the PDP by the results of the elections for the presidential election.
“Our duty is to go back and identify
areas of challenges so that the party will come up strong and play the
role as a very strong party. The PDP is still the most organised party,
is still the party that is not owned by anybody, is still the party that
whatever you are, you can get to any level with your competencies and
so on.”
The President also said that all members of the PDP who defected to the APC would return with empty stomachs.
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