The
Presidential Aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP and former
Governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has said that
the PDP will dislodge the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) during
the 2019 Presidential election.
Sen. Makarfi disclosed this on
Wednesday in Jos when he addressed PDP executives and National delegates
at the State Secretariat of PDP in Jos, Plateau State.
Makarfi
who was the Immediate past National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also pledge to fight insecurity,
injustice if elected President come 2019.
“Winning
election is not about one individual, it is all about the PDP movement,
it is all about the people. The PDP supported me when I was chairman
caretaker committee and we were able to resuscitate PDP and the Party is
seen by Nigerians and all over the world as an alternative government
in waiting, and with that if supported as the presidential candidate of
the Party officially, I am absolutely sure that we will be able to
return PDP to power come 2019.
Sen. Makarfi said he was in the
party Secretariat to solicit the support of the delegates who has the
mandate of selecting who would fly the ticket of the party during the
general elections.
He said he has declared his interest to run for
the Presidential elections in 2019 and that more people would come to
canvass for support, saying all the aspirants are credible but he
remained more credible than them
Sen. Makarfi said his campaign
which is anchored on unity would be driven by fairness, justice and
equity where every geopolitical zone in the country would be carried
along.
The
former Governor said his government will end insecurity that has
ravaged the country by not politicizing security matters that affects
the citizens of Nigeria.
“We will not politicize security matter,
it is a matter which affects everybody, one thing that this government
has done is trying to politicize security, PDP government will not
politicize security matter, we will work with everybody, we will work
with traditional rulers, we will work with religious leaders, community
leaders, it will be fair, justice and equity for all without any kind of
discrimination.
“We will give the security agencies the
enablement to perform and if this is done, they must perform or we will
use the stick and carrot approach and those who cannot perform they will
be shown the way out.” He said.
By Musa Pam, Jos