Musdapha Ilo

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has commenced a post election review of its performance during the last general election the North east, in an attempt to make the necessary adjustments in subsequent polls.

The chairman of the post election review committee, Shuaib Oyedokun, who made this known to newsmen in Gombe said the PDP is prepared to regain power in 2019.

The three-man post election review committee has the task of critically looking at the party’s poor performance at the polls at all levels in the 2015 general elections.

It would also work out a road map for repositioning the party and restoring confidence in the party.

According to Oyedokun, stakeholders of the party from the six states of the North east would appear before the committee to identify what went wrong during the election and proffer solution.

These suggestions would be forwarded to the national secretariat of the party.

“We are having audience with delegates from the six states of the zone and we have been having serious frank discussions about what happened and the way forward. We will later report back to our national headquarters in Abuja, for proper analysis and final recommendations to the party,” he said.

He said the template provided by the party would be strictly followed as directed.

“We are also looking at how conflicts were resolved during the polls, the campaign strategy as well as funding and disbursement of campaign funds among many others,” Oyedokun said.

The former national deputy chairman of the party admitted that complacency was partly responsible for the failure of the party but assured that corrections would be made, so as to reclaim power.

“We were not careful enough. We failed a little in managing the success we had for 16 years and we were complacent. This failure now has taught us a lot. This exercise we are embarking on is indeed an innovation,” he stated.

Recently the PDP set up a committee headed by the deputy senate president, Ike Ekeremadu to assess its dismal performance in the 2015 polls. The committee was broken down into sub committees to cover the different geo-political zones.

The party lost in some of its traditional strongholds, including Bauchi, Plateau, Benue, Niger, Katsina and Kebbi states.