HAS the Peoples Democratic Party resolved that President Goodluck Jonathan will be its presidential candidate for the 2015 election?
Probably, given the prayer the PDP offered for the President on Thursday. It asked God to allow Jonathan to win the 2015 poll.
“We pray to you God, to help our President win the election and come out tops in 2015 in Jesus name.
“Father, we pray that the crisis in the party would stop and that the President would lead us well in the name of God,” so prayed the PDP National Secretary, Prof. Wale Oladipo, at the inauguration of the Kwara state executive caretaker committee of the party.
At the event were the National Chairman of the PDP, Bamangar Tukur; and other members of the National Working Committee, who all chorused loud “AMEN” to the prayer.
Other members of the NWC who chorused their agreement to Jonathan’s victory in 2015 were the party’s National Organising Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Mustapha; National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh; and the National Treasurer, Alhaji Adewole Adeyanju.
An aide of one of the NWC members, who sat close to our correspondent, wondered whether the prayer was an indication that there would not be any presidential primary in the party.
“With this prayer and the ‘amen’ that followed, maybe the party has foreclosed the idea of holding any presidential primary to choose its presidential candidate,” he said.
Meanwhile, Tukur has said that the party is not moved by the defection of its members to the All Progressive Congress.
He said that the defection of 27 out of 30 members of the Sokoto State House of Assembly to the APC would allow other people to join the PDP in the state.
“They (the lawmakers) have left already when the governor left. When 27 people leave, 270,000 will join. This is democracy. If few had left many would come in,” Tukur said.
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