Jonathan can’t win Lagos for PDP –APGA

Jonathan can’t win Lagos for PDP –APGA

The Chairman of the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, Mr. Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe, has told the state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party that it will fail to win Lagos State next year if it relies on President Goodluck Jonathan for support.
The APGA boss said if former President Olusegun Obasanjo- who is a Yoruba man- could not help the PDP win Lagos during his tenure, then it would be impossible for Jonathan, who is an Ijaw man, to do so.
Umeh-Nzekwe, who was the first organising secretary of the Lagos PDP in 1998, said this during an interview with our correspondent on Wednesday.
He said the PDP should forget about winning Lagos. He, however, advised the PDP to support an APGA governorship candidate since APGA was a more formidable threat to the All Progressives Congress.
The APGA chairman said the major personalities in the PDP were not good options because they were former allies of former Governor Bola Tinubu, who is an APC leader.
He said, “The PDP should stop heating up the political situation in Lagos State because they don’t have the structure; they don’t have the financial capacity to win election in Lagos. As I am talking to you, some of them (aspirants) don’t know their ward chairmen.
“They are just gathering to negotiate national cake, not to win election. It has been their system since 1999. The PDP has only won a House of Assembly seat in Lagos since 1999.
“Their leader, Bode George, has never won his polling unit before and the PDP is his empire. The current chairman, Tunji Shelle, is not a politician. He was George’s subordinate in the navy. There is no way they can win election.
“So, the PDP is just making a noise. Their hope is that Jonathan will help them but if Obasanjo, a son of the soil, could not win Lagos State, it would be naïve to think that Jonathan, an Ijaw man, can win it for them.”