PDP is the only political party with no owner, says Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday
described his political party, the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) as the “only truly
democratic party where everyone is the same and
with equal stake’’.
“PDP is the only party that has no owner; it is a
democratic group with no landlord and tenant,’’
Jonathan said in his campaign in Jos, Plateau.
He urged that internal disagreements in the party
should be resolved using the its machinery, and
cautioned against the temptation to defect to
another political party over the slightest
disagreement.
He said that disagreements arising from primary
elections were “normal in every human situation’’,
adding that political parties usually got stronger
after resolving such internal crises and
disagreements.
The president commended former Plateau
governor, Sen. Joshua Dariye, for returning to the
PDP after his sojourn in the Labour Party and
expressed the party’s willingness to be fair to all.
He said that politicians should take advantage of
the freedom offered by the growing democratic
culture to embrace dialogue to make for more
permanent mutual trust.
He challenged Plateau people to work toward
returning the state to its former status as the most
peaceful in country, and stressed the need for
them to emulate leaders like late Solomon Lar and
Gen. Yakubu Gowon.
He promised to make Nigeria a much better place
if given a second term, saying that more sectors
would enjoy massive intervention as was currently
witnessed in the rail, agriculture and power
sectors.
“We must collectively fight our problems the way
we fought and defeated the Ebola virus that would
have been a calamity if it had become pandemic,’’
he said.