PDP lost for fielding only Jonathan at primary – Kwankwaso

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Sep 22, 2018 3:39 AM

The PDP lost in the 2015 presidential election because the party fielded only former President Goodluck Jonathan at the primary election, a PDP presidential aspirant and senator representing Kano-Central in the National Assembly, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has said.

Kwankwaso said this yesterday while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily that with the number of aspirants in the PDP presidential race compared to that of 2015, the party’s chances of victory in next year’s election were high.

“In 2015, PDP had only one candidate and it lost the election. If you look at it statistically, from 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2011, PDP had very competitive (aspirants) at primary elections and was winning the general elections in those election years. But in 2015, it decided to print only one form for one person and it lost the election”, he said.

Kwankwanso attributed the movement of many PDP members to the APC after the 2015 general elections to impunity.

“PDP, in my opinion, learnt its lessons. In 2015, PDP was very arrogant and believed that whatever happened, they would win the election. They never thought that an incumbent could lose the election. They had at that time, some level of impunity that many of us felt that was not the best way to handle the government, the party and of course the country.

“That was why we decided to defect to the APC, mobilise the people and at the end of the day, we won the election,” he said.