Senate President Bukola Saraki yesterday boasted that the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the 2019 presidential election.
Saraki, who spoke in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital at a meeting with PDP members, also voiced confidence that the party would emerge victorious at ward, local, state and federal levels.
At the meeting with the PDP members who came from the wards and 16 local government areas of the state, he said the victories of the PDP at both federal and state levels would be beneficial to all the members in the state.
The Senate president said the future of PDP is now bigger and brighter than what it used to be.
“With unity of purpose, no party can contest with you. We are here to unite all of us under the party we belong to today. I am assuring all members that there will be equity, internal democracy and justice. It is not going to be winners take all. As far as I am concerned, everybody here today belongs to our political structure.
“There is nothing like old or new PDP. We have all become one PDP. There is nobody here that will not say one way or the other we have not been together before. I want all of us to be united for the progress and development of Kwara State.
“We will ensure that we work as one party, because we have always worked together before. We will see that all the wards and local governments’ popular candidates emerge based on their popularity and acceptability. I want to emphasis it that I don’t have any anointed candidate at all levels. I don’t have candidates for state assembly, it is the person you want in your constituency that I will okay. Don’t allow anybody to deceive you that I have endorsed any candidate.
“I implore party leaders and elders not to drop my name to impose unpopular candidates. I don’t have candidate for the National Assembly. All of us will collectively choose who becomes the next governor. We will ensure that there is no faction but one PDP. “Please go back home to start the work. I am sure many more will come back and join us because those that left were under the wrong assumption that it will be different from what it used to be. “They were misled that those coming are out to move them away. Nobody is moving you away because this place belongs to you too,” he said.
