PDP’ll regain power in 2019 – Mimiko

the newly-elected Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party Governors’ Forum, Ondo’s Olusegun Mimiko, on
Thursday said that the opposition party would regain
power at the centre come 2019.
Mimiko said the PDP had in fact commenced the
process of taking back power from the All Progressives
Congress during the next general elections.
He said this at the Akure airport during a mini-
reception organised for him on his return from Abuja,
where he was voted as the new PDP governors’
chairman on Wednesday.
Mimiko said the governors were determined to give the
PDP a new face as the opposition party, pledging that
the party’s engagement of the ruling APC would be
robust and offer alternative policy platform and
programmes for the country.
He said the PDP governors had resolved to collectively
work assiduously and excel in governance with a view
to re-branding the party and selling it to all Nigerians.
He said, “We must sustain enthusiasm in our party; and
as governors who have pivotal roles to play in re-
branding our party, we must show in governance term
the difference between us and the APC and these are
the challenges ahead of us.
“As opposition party, our engagement will be robust;
we must offer alternative policy platform and
programme when we criticise one. We must show
Nigerians that we are a different party. We will not be
abusive in opposing the government and we will praise
where it is worthy of praise and criticise in a very
robust manner”
He said that the PDP in Ondo State had reached an
appreciable level of repositioning and that the party was
“overwhelmingly” in charge in the state.
The Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly,
Jumoke Akindele, noted at the reception that the
emergence of Mimiko as the chairman of the PDP
Governors’ Forum was well deserved.