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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has predicted that it will win the forthcoming general elections, claiming that its laudable achievements in all sectors of the economy will clinch victory for it.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, made the assertion at a news briefing on Monday in Abuja.
Metuh said that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) had not told the people how it intended to implement the change it was preaching.
He claimed said that there was no administration in the nation's history that had done more for the country than PDP in terms of development.
On PDP’s achievements in the North, he said, ''the North has received so much from President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in terms of development. The PDP has done so much for the three zones in the northern part of this country.
''The problem of insurgency we have in the North-East is not the making of the PDP and this government has done so much to curtail it''.
Metuh stressed that if not for the personality and character of Jonathan and his determination and style of administration, insurgency would have overrun more than half of Nigeria.
''This government has been very fair to the people of the North in terms of appointment and development projects and we believe our brothers in the region would give us their vote. Our opponent has been talking about how they will win us in the elections, but I want to state that zone by zone, we will win the presidential election.
''We will beat the opposition in the entire North, South-West, South-East and South–South zones. There is no zone that the APC will win PDP; we will win them convincingly,’’ he said.
According to him, PDP`s confidence to win the entire North and other parts of the country at the forthcoming general elections is based on the attention it derives from the people.
''We believe we will win because Nigerians have embraced us and have benefited greatly from our party`s policies and programmes and we know that the people are with us,’’ he said.
On the party's alleged attack on the APC’s presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammad Buhari, Metuh said that PDP was ''only paying the party back in its own coin''.
''For four years they have insulted the president; this party and its national leadership had discredited our people, so they should not complain if once or twice we raise issues that have to do with them.
''Our president has been very accommodating. Of all the insults they rained on him, he has raised only one or two issues, so they should not be complaining,’’ he said.
He, however, said that the PDP would not trade words with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his alleged romance with members of the opposition.
''Some of the achievements we are running with were under the administration of President Obasanjo and there is no way we will go back to start trading issues with him,’’ he said.
The PDP spokesman added that ''as one of the leaders, the party respects Obasanjo so much for his contributions towards its growth and desires his support.
''Whatever we have to discuss with him, we will continue to engage him in private and urge him to support our candidates at all levels in the coming elections,’’ he said.
He, however, debunked insinuations that the recent drop in pump price of petrol announced by the Federal Government on Sunday was politically motivated.
''This is not the first time we will have fuel price reduction in this country; we did it when the late President Umaru Yar'Adua came into office. He reduced the pump price of petrol from N75.000 per litre to N66.000 and it was N66.000 for a long time and that was not politics. He did it in June, 2007 and there was no election then,’’ he recall.
He explained that government's decision to reduce the pump price, was predicated on the crashing crude oil price in the international market.
According to him, the government will not increase the price of petroleum products as long as it remains stable in the world oil market. Metuh stressed that what Nigerians should be asking for was complete deregulation of the petroleum sector so that it would be reflective of the world oil price.
#PDP #Obasanjo
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Olisa Metuh, made the assertion at a news briefing on Monday in Abuja.
Metuh said that the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) had not told the people how it intended to implement the change it was preaching.
He claimed said that there was no administration in the nation's history that had done more for the country than PDP in terms of development.
On PDP’s achievements in the North, he said, ''the North has received so much from President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in terms of development. The PDP has done so much for the three zones in the northern part of this country.
''The problem of insurgency we have in the North-East is not the making of the PDP and this government has done so much to curtail it''.
Metuh stressed that if not for the personality and character of Jonathan and his determination and style of administration, insurgency would have overrun more than half of Nigeria.
''This government has been very fair to the people of the North in terms of appointment and development projects and we believe our brothers in the region would give us their vote. Our opponent has been talking about how they will win us in the elections, but I want to state that zone by zone, we will win the presidential election.
''We will beat the opposition in the entire North, South-West, South-East and South–South zones. There is no zone that the APC will win PDP; we will win them convincingly,’’ he said.
According to him, PDP`s confidence to win the entire North and other parts of the country at the forthcoming general elections is based on the attention it derives from the people.
''We believe we will win because Nigerians have embraced us and have benefited greatly from our party`s policies and programmes and we know that the people are with us,’’ he said.
On the party's alleged attack on the APC’s presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammad Buhari, Metuh said that PDP was ''only paying the party back in its own coin''.
''For four years they have insulted the president; this party and its national leadership had discredited our people, so they should not complain if once or twice we raise issues that have to do with them.
''Our president has been very accommodating. Of all the insults they rained on him, he has raised only one or two issues, so they should not be complaining,’’ he said.
He, however, said that the PDP would not trade words with former President Olusegun Obasanjo over his alleged romance with members of the opposition.
''Some of the achievements we are running with were under the administration of President Obasanjo and there is no way we will go back to start trading issues with him,’’ he said.
The PDP spokesman added that ''as one of the leaders, the party respects Obasanjo so much for his contributions towards its growth and desires his support.
''Whatever we have to discuss with him, we will continue to engage him in private and urge him to support our candidates at all levels in the coming elections,’’ he said.
He, however, debunked insinuations that the recent drop in pump price of petrol announced by the Federal Government on Sunday was politically motivated.
''This is not the first time we will have fuel price reduction in this country; we did it when the late President Umaru Yar'Adua came into office. He reduced the pump price of petrol from N75.000 per litre to N66.000 and it was N66.000 for a long time and that was not politics. He did it in June, 2007 and there was no election then,’’ he recall.
He explained that government's decision to reduce the pump price, was predicated on the crashing crude oil price in the international market.
According to him, the government will not increase the price of petroleum products as long as it remains stable in the world oil market. Metuh stressed that what Nigerians should be asking for was complete deregulation of the petroleum sector so that it would be reflective of the world oil price.
#PDP #Obasanjo