A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chief Bode George, has said political parties in the country lack ideological differences.
The Board of Trustees (BoT) member, said this during his appearance on Channels Television’s programme, Sunday Politics in Lagos.
“For me, if you look at the Nigerian politics, all political parties don’t have ideological differences – where you say far-right, far-left or centre-right, centre-left – we don’t have that,” he said.
Speaking on the latest defection of members of the National Assembly from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to his party, the PDP, he described the development as ‘very good indeed,’ noting that most of the defecting lawmakers were members of the opposition party who decided to return home after trying their luck somewhere else.
George who expressed confidence that the PDP possess the capacity to contain the crisis that led to the exit of the lawmakers from the APC, having learned from their mistakes.
“The PDP is not a contraction; the PDP is not a congregation of strange bird fellows, we have our methodologies. We have a concept, the concept by which this party was established are still there.
The former PDP National Vice-Chairman in the South-West further expressed hope that his party who he believes has the right candidates would wrest power from the APC in 2019, adding that the people were tired of fake promises but interested in what the government would do to satisfy their basic needs in the areas of education, job employment for youths, and infrastructural development among others.
