PDP will win the next general election – Ex-President Jonathan

The former President of Nigeria, Mr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has claimed that the People Democratic Party, PDP will win the next general election.

Mr Jonathan said this while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party affairs Committee of the PDP on Monday in Abuja.

Mr. Jonathan said current efforts at reforming the party are “a clear sign” the PDP will win in 2019.

“Yes we lost the presidential election, but that doesn’t diminish us. Every other party still knows that PDP is a leading party,” said Mr. Jonathan.

“Losing the presidency is something temporary. We should be able to get that position back as long as we are able to get our acts together. I am happy that you people are working towards that,” he said.

Mr. Jonathan was the party’s candidate in the 2015 election but lost to the then opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The former president also said that direct primary, especially under presidential system of government, was the ultimate and best way of selecting candidates for elections.

He, however, remarked that the greatest problem was how to manage the direct primaries. He said that for a party like the PDP, with membership across all polling units, it meant that voting would take place at wards or local government levels.