We have recovered from the 2015 General election defeat – PDP

Firstclass newsline gathered that the Peoples Democratic Party has
said it has recovered from the unprecedented electoral defeat it
suffered during the 2015 general elections.
It, therefore, said it has begun moves to recapture power from the All
Progressives Congress in 2019.
It said one of the moves aimed at winning the elections in the future
was the election of the Governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko,
as the Chairman of the PDP Governors' Forum.
The party hailed the process that led to Mimiko's emergence, saying
the development reflects the unity and sense of purpose within its
fold, especially at this rebuilding time.
The PDP, in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Chief
Olisa Metuh, in Abuja on Saturday, described Mimiko as a seasoned
administrator and a highly organized person, who is eminently equipped
for his new role as the Chairman of the Forum.
He also commended the governors for their continued commitment towards
the party "as it reengineers and repositions to regain power in 2019."
Metuh added that the recent political events in the country have
continued to vindicate the PDP as "the only true national platform
committed to national interest, where all citizens as equal partners
are free to hold opinion and aspire to any position, no matter how
high, without regard to creed, class or ethnic considerations and in
which no individual or group of individuals can claim ownership or
attempt to appropriate control."
Stating that the PDP "has since overcome the setback of the last
general elections," the spokesperson for the opposition party said as
a party founded on the principles of freedom, equality, justice and
national unity, the PDP's spirit "is still alive and stronger now more
than ever before, in the minds of most Nigerians and families in all
the nooks and crannies of the country."
He, therefore, charged its members in all the wards, local governments
and states of the federation to close ranks, double their efforts and
continue to work with their leaders at all levels to ensure that the
PDP comes out stronger to regain power at the center and in its
traditional states come 2019.
Metuh thanked the immediate past Chairman of the Forum, former
Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, and other past
governors of the PDP for their stewardship, while urging the present
governors to continue to work together and make PDP states models of
development and good governance in the country.
Firstclassnewsline.net