'PDP will win the 2019 Presidential election, The future is bright' - Bukola Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PD) will win the 2019 presidential elections.

Saraki said this in Ilorin, Kwara state while speaking to PDP members on Wednesday, August 22, 2018, Punch reports.

He also expressed confidence that his new party would emerge victorious in all the local government areas of Kwara State. He said that the victory of PDP at both federal and state levels would be beneficial to all the members in the state.

'PDP will win the 2019 Presidential election, The future is bright' - Bukola Saraki

Saraki said "If we emerge victorious at the federal level, all of us will be the beneficiaries. In the state, with your support we will win the state for PDP. All of you here are the key players in Kwara politics. With unity of purpose, no party can contest with you. We are here to unite all of us under the party we belong to today. I am assuring all members that there will be equity, internal democracy and justice.

"It is not going to be winners take all. As far as I am concerned, everybody here today belong to our political structure. There is nothing like old or new Peoples Democratic Party. We have all become one PDP."

The Senate President called on PDP members in Kwara to unite so that they can emerge victorious.

"I want all of us to be united for the progress and development of Kwara State. As par the politics of the state, nobody can wrest the power from us I if we are united. By the grace of God we will emerge victorious both at the federal and state levels.

"We will ensure that we work as one party because we have always worked together before. We will see that all the wards and local governments' popular candidates emerge based on their popularity and acceptability."

He assured PDP members that there would be no anointed candidates in all the elective positions.

"I don't have any anointed candidate at all levels. I don't have candidates for the state Assembly, National Assembly. It is the person you want in your constituency that I will okay. Don't allow anybody to deceive you that I have endorsed any candidate. All of us will collectively choose who becomes the next governor. We will ensure that there is no faction, but one PDP. We will ensure that meetings in the local government areas take place in one venue. And we will all work together for the interest of the party," he said.

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