The new Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Governors’ Forum, Governor Olusegun Mimiko, said the party will be rebranded and by 2019, would regain power at the centre.
The Ondo state governor revealed on Thursday, June 18, that the PDP has already began the process of taking back power from the All Progressives Congress during the next general elections.
Mimiko 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.
He said the governors were determined to give the PDP a new face as the opposition party and offer alternative policy platform and programmes for the country.
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”.
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