PDP Will Win 2019 Elections – Omokunmi

The Oyo state Chairman of People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Omokunmi Mustapha is confident that the largest opposition party in the country would win the 2019 general elections in the state.

Omokunmi expressed this optimism in an exclusive interview with Citymirrornews Correspondent at the party’s state secretariat located at Molete, Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.

He said that PDP was ready to regain power at both state and national level even without campaigning owing to their ability to do their home work very well.

He noted that President Muhammadu Buhari has failed woefully in fulfilling his campaign promises in addition to increased poverty and insecurity across different states in the country.

While reacting to the recent purported names of looters released by the government, the Chairman said that Buhari was not fighting corruption but witch-hunting of opposition members especially, PDP, considering the fact that a good number of PDP members have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and their names did not appear on the purported looters list.

Omokunmi said that those campaigning for Buhari today were former members of the umbrella party giving example of the former Abia state governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu.

He added that there is poverty in the country, high cost of food items in the market and people are not comfortable because of the voodoo economic policies of the current APC government.

While commenting on the state of the party in Oyo state, the Chairman said that the party is in good position but admitted that there are some aggrieved members.

He said, “In a situation like this, we can not afford to have people being aggrieved because since the time we held our state congress, it has been like that despite the fact that we have marriage of about 5 political parties”.

“We can not but  have something of such because some people will surely be aggrieved if they feel they didn’t get what they supposed to get in the state exco or working committee” he added.

Speaking further, Omokunmi said there were not much that National Working Committee can do about the issue “only to advise us to sit together and settle it amicably”.

He said, “Since our exco have been approved by the same National Working Committee and before the aggrieved people of the party started, we were invited and even signed an agreement”.

“Some members of old PDP not the new PDP are the people that are aggrieved” he concluded.