Nigeria: 2019 - We Can't Defeat APC On Our Own - PDP

20 April 2018

By Chibuzo Ukaibe

Ahead of next year's general election, the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has declared that his party will not be able to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 presidential election all by itself. Secondus, who spoke at the emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party yesterday, called on opposition platforms to work together in order to remove the APC from office.

The PDP chairman likened this present administration to the pre-1999 military era and noted that former presidents are in unison to make sure that a fresh president and new government was formed in the interest of the people in 2019.

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