Chief Tom Ikimi, a former APC National Leader
who dumped the party for the PDP recently has
said that Nigerians must resist the urge to allow
the APC win the 2015 elections as it will spell
doom for the entire country and the gains of the
President's transformation agenda.
Ikimi who said he is not seeking any appointment
for joining the PDP but to contribute his quota to
the growth of the democracy and the development
of the nation said that, "we must not gamble with
our country; allowing APC to take power is a
gamble We must avoid".
Drumming up support he said President Jonathan
as the first President of Nigeria to be a University
graduate, cannot do without challenges as he is
equipped to overcome them commending his
fetas in revamping the food and transport
sectors, saying, "our people are happy".
He spoke as he led his supporters from across
the south-south zone to attend the zonal PDP
rally at the Ogbe stadium in Benin city also said
that, "I believe I can make a difference... as I
have now adopted and re-integrated myself into
my original family of PDP".
According to him, there is no nation without
problems assuring the President that "Your
predecessors fought a civil war and succeeded,
another fought for the independent of our country
and for the restoration of democracy", adding that
it was as a sitting President that George Bush
encountered the September 11, 2011 terrorist
bombing of the US.
Ikimi said that with his joining the PDP, the entire
south-south zone is now fully PDP as Edo state
is back to the PDP since he will be leading all his
erstwhile APC supporters to retrieve the Edo
mandate which was taken away from the party in
2007 with the 2015 and 2016 elections in the
state.
He regretted as a chief cook who invited others to
a dinner, those he invited came, ate and took
away the pots, the plates and the spoons,
referring to the fate of the ACN before it fused
with other parties into the APC in 2013.
Responding the PDP National Chairman, Dr Aminu
Muazu assured Ikimi that all his supporters would
be integrated into the party at all levels of the
party from the wards to the zone as Integration
Committees set up for that purpose was already
at work, reconciling new members and old
members who are returning.
He said, the "PDP has been stabilised as a party
and remains a great party with a great leader in
President Goodluck Jonathan who is goodluck in
name and in person".
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