2019: You can’t take Taraba, Delta away from PDP, party tells Oshiomhole

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party has asked the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole to forget it described as “day-dream” of thinking that the ruling APC “forcefully take over Taraba and Delta States in 2019.”
PDP, in a statement signed by its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan yesterday charged Oshiomhole to concentrate his energies on saving his party from imminent collapse rather than attempting to bully and override the people of Delta and Taraba states ahead of 2019 elections.
“Perhaps Oshiomhole mistook Delta and Taraba states 2019 elections for the APC 2018 national convention where President Muhammadu Buhari bullied and intimidated delegates to foist him as National Chairman, without proper election.
“Nigerians know that Delta and Taraba states are major strongholds of the PDP for which we clearly won the 2015 governorship and presidential elections in the states.
“The PDP, in 2015, enjoyed overwhelming followership which has now tripled in the last three years, signposting our inevitable victory in 2019, particularly due to the sterling performance of Governors Ifeanyi Okowa and Darius Ishaku in delivering good governance and development to the people.
“Furthermore, it is an unpardonable assault on the sensibilities of the people of these states for Oshiomhole to mute that they will vote for the same APC, which has failed to protect their lives and has continued to play helpless while marauders slaughter their brothers and sisters and ravage their communities.a
“We are however not unaware of Oshiomhole’s pattern of deploying false assertions, propaganda and instigating confusion, but we assure him that such cannot work in Delta and Taraba states, no matter the machination, as the people are solidly behind the PDP in our quest with majority of Nigerians to rescue our nation from the clutches of the APC.
It added that, “instead of wasting his time fixating on PDP states, we advise Oshiomhole to direct his energy on how to save his crumbling party from the misfortune of being stuck with an unpopular candidate in President Buhari, who has become the fixed omen of inescapable electoral humiliation of the APC in 2019.