The former governor, who stated this yesterday in Lokoja at the State PDP Elders Advisory Councils meeting which he chaired, however, said if the PDP changed its ways quickly, the party had all that was necessary to wrestle power from APC in 2019. He stressed that APC’s nature did not show enough coercion to stay in power more than one term.
Idris, however, said for PDP to get back to power, it must change its top hierarchy leaders to pave way for new blood who will inject better and new ideas for the party; away from its old parochial nature of doing things.
His words: “PDP lost the last election because we were too proud. We were doing things out of the normal norms and thinking that the party will still continue to win election as usual; but we got punished for it.
“However, there is hope for us to regain power. But we must first change our leaders and give rooms for new blood who will inject fresh and better ideas into the party for us to make a lee way. We must embrace fairness, justice and truth.
“It’s not out of place for PDP to win the presidency in 2019. It will happen. The nature of APC does not show any sign of coercion to retain power beyond this term; but we must work as a party and show sign of remorse to get back into power.”
On the forthcoming election in the state, Idris said it will be the biggest mistake if APC took away Lugard House from the PDP.
“It will be the biggest mistake if any other party take over Kogi from PDP. I cannot imagine any other party taking away power from us. It will be the highest level of disgrace to us.
“Kogi is still a PDP state, nothing has shaken us, we are not afraid of the opposition. We (PDP) have all it takes to deal with the opposition.”
Idris, who said the PDP had demonstrated his strength in the House of Assembly election, where it won majority of the seat, said similar feat would be displayed at the November governorship poll.
