{"id":7741,"date":"2023-06-29T18:06:35","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2023-06-29T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T17:06:35","slug":"guber-polls-pdp-confident-of-reclaiming-kogi-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/guber-polls-pdp-confident-of-reclaiming-kogi-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Guber Polls: PDP Confident of Reclaiming Kogi, Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Emmanuel Ogidi, said the party is confident of winning the Nov. 11 governorship elections in <a href=\"https:\/\/ebirareporters.com\/2023\/05\/24\/our-members-were-deceived-into-govt-house-kogi-pdp-cries-out-over-defection\/\">Kogi<\/a>, Imo and Bayelsa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ogidi, a former PDP vice-chairman (South), in an interview in Abuja on Thursday, described PDP as a party to beat in the three states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that PDP and its candidates were already enjoying massive acceptance and support by majority of the people in those states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ogidi said the party was doing everything possible to quickly reconcile its aggrieved members or any misunderstanding within the party in the three states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, this will ensure that the party is united and work together and mobilise for the party\u2019s victory in elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have the confident of victory in the elections and that is why we want to quickly talk to one another and reconcile all grievances so that it does not affect our chances,\u201d Mr Ogidi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the party petition on the 2023 general election ongoing at the presidential election petition court (PEPC), he expressed hope that the outcome would favour the PDP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe judges must know that whatever one sows today, he reap tomorrow. They should do things according to their hearts,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Contrary to speculations that PDP may not survive if the decision of the judiciary on the presidential election did not favour it, Mr Ogidi said it remained a vibrant political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are going to bounce back. We have more than 60 members in the House of Reps, 36 senators, over 300 state lawmakers. We are big. There is hope,\u201d Mr Ogidi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Ogidi said though PDP seemed to be passing through some challenges at the moment, the party had its in-built mechanism to resolve any challenges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere is no family without problem, but we have our own in-built machinery to deal with things like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat is why we recently had a select meeting of national working committee to proffer the way forward\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said though PDP was not structured to be opposition party, it must learn to play the role now that it has found itself in that position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOne of our setbacks is that when you look at some of the principal persons in All the Progressives Congress (APC), they were previously in the PDP,\u2019\u2019 Mr Ogidi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the call on the PDP leaders to suspend all members alleged to have worked against the party in the 2023 general election, Mr Ogidi said the party would give a fair hearing on the allegations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou need to give them a fair hearing that is why we are contemplating setting up committees to visit each state and find out what happened and the reasons members acted the way they did.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSome of them may have genuine reason. 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