NewsWe Lost In 2015 Because We Fielded Jonathan – Makarfi

We Lost In 2015 Because We Fielded Jonathan – Makarfi

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SAN FRANCISCO, February 24, (THEWILL) – The factional ‘Chairman’ of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Friday said the party would have won the 2015 presidential election if it had fielded a northern candidate.

THEWILL recalls that the candidate fielded by the party in 2015 was former President Goodluck Jonathan, a southerner from Bayelsa state who lost to President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to The Nation, Makarfi said the “gang up” by the north against the PDP would not have been possible if the party had presented a northern presidential candidate.

He stated that the party also became too comfortable and stopped communicating with the people to know what they wanted, adding that made it possible for propaganda to be used against the party.

He also said imposition of candidates was partly responsible for the failure and crisis in the party and should not be allowed to continue.

The ex- Kaduna governor said, “PDP would have won the 2015 presidential election straight away with a northern candidate.

“The reason is that, it would have been impossible to make an issue out of this North and South thing. We would have broken the North’s gang up so to say against the PDP.

“Again, we became too comfortable. A little bit of arrogance sometimes. We were not communicating well with the people. Because we were not communicating well, we failed to get what the people were saying, and of course, that made it easier for propaganda to be used against us. And that propaganda went deep that we couldn’t do anything again.”

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