ALAS! Jonathan accepts responsibility for PDP’s loss in 2015; "Promised to ensure Pdp is reelected in 2019"

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said heaccepted responsibility for the loss of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2015 general elections as the then presiding president under the party’s
platform.
The former Nigerian leader also said he will do everything possible to ensure the party regains in bigger
folds what it lost to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015.
He spoke when he received Chairmanship aspirant Chief Olabode George and his campaign team at his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
In his words: “Whether I like it or not, I must take responsibility for the defeat because I led the party to the election. The only thing that will make me sleep well is to ensure that PDP comes back to power”.
The former president said he was working with other stakeholders to ensure that the party is well organized to achieve this purpose though he preferred to work
from the back seat.

He said the party must begin to take the right steps in the right direction to regain the confidence of the
electorate adding that the mistakes of the past will not
be repeated. Speaking earlier, George, a former deputy national
chairman of PDP who is currently on a nationwide campaign for the chairmanship election in December
congratulated the former president on his 60th birthday anniversary while urging him as the leader of the party to ensure that the party will emerge stronger from the
forthcoming national convention.
George, however, told the former president that the failure to apply the micro-zoning principle to the
chairmanship position this time around had caused
ripples capable of dividing the party.
He lamented that the party appeared to be drifting as there was no reasonable justification offered by the Senator Makarfi led National Caretaker Committee for
jettisoning the principle which was applied to all previous elections to the position.