Bode George: Nigerians waiting for PDP to unseat Tinubu in 2027

A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bode George, says Nigerians are waiting for the PDP to unseat the All Progressives Congress (APC) government led by President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 general election.

George said this at a press conference to commemorate his 79th birthday in Lagos on Thursday, November 21, 2024.

The PDP chieftain, who said the party was the only party that could save Nigeria from hardship, urged the party members and leaders across the country to use the forthcoming party’s National Executive Committee meeting as a golden opportunity before the 2027 general elections “to bury our differences and put on our thinking caps”.

According to him, the party should do everything humanly possible to ensure that the PDP does not go into the dustbin of history in 2027.

On the political crisis in Rivers State and the feud between Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, the PDP leader urged Wike to “cool off immediately”.

Urging party leaders not to treat Fubara like an outcast, George called on all PDP leaders to rise in defence of the general interest of the party and sanity.

He said: “We should not allow the collective unity of this party to be fragmented. How we collectively address the issues at stake will be a major determinant of the fate of this party in months and years to come.

“It is our determination to ensure that the PDP returns to the Presidential Villa in Abuja on May 29, 2027, but, we can only go back to Aso Rock if we are united, not divided.

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“We cannot afford to fail and disappoint our founding fathers. Let me state categorically that Nigerians are waiting for us in 2027 but we must put our house in order.

“As leaders, we must not allow anybody to destroy our party because PDP is the only true national party.”

George, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees (BoT), said while the party leadership was trying its best to ensure all members had a sense of belonging, some “desperados” were doing everything possible to thwart their efforts.

Calling for a united PDP, George said the party’s founding fathers who had gone to the world beyond would be crying in their graves because the party has become “a shadow of itself due to selfish interests of some members”.

He described as disheartening and pitiable, a situation where some PDP members were already working for the APC in the build-up to the 2027 elections.

The PDP chieftain added: “They have one leg in PDP and another leg in APC. Such chameleonic characters are the ones trying to dictate the direction of this party.

“In the name of everything that is dear to our great party, this pretension must be stopped immediately by patriotic members of this party.

“Since the first elective convention of our party in 1999 when PDP was handed over to some of us as national officers, we have never had it this bad.

“If the PDP must rescue Nigerians from the vicious grip of APC in 2027, this must be a major agenda during our NEC meeting in Abuja.”

The Star