Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman in Nasarawa State, Hon Francis Orogu, has said the party has a better chance of winning the governorship election in 2023.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP, Orogu said the party leadership is optimistic of victory at the 2023 polls, adding that the party has no post primaries internal squabbles.
He said, “You are aware of what transpired in the last governorship election in Nasarawa State where the PDP polled 175,000 votes; the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) got 122,000 and the All Progressives Congress (APC) scored 200,000 votes. Now with the merging of PDP and APGA, the PDP would have an edge. Our party has a greater chance come 2023.
“Again we in PDP have a better chance to clinch the 2023 election because our party has little or no internal squabbles which emanated from the party primaries election like it is obtainable in the APC.
“We conducted the best ever primary election from the multitudes of aspirants cut across all elective positions from House of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate to governorship.
“We had three governorship aspirants, 13 senatorial aspirants and 77 aspirants for House of Assembly seats which is almost 100 aspirants.
“The happiest thing to unveil to you today is that no single petition was filed after the primaries.”
you that we don’t have friction in our party and I can tell you authoritatively that PDP is free from protest by aspirants that contested and lost elections unlike the APC which is disintegrating on a daily basis.”
He said the people of state should expect nothing short of PDP taking over leadership in the state, “so we can reposition the state by providing the much needed good governance.”
