PDP DEFECTORS WOULD RETURN WITH EMPTY STOMACH - JONATHAN

President Goodluck Jonathan has warned defectors that they will return to the Peoples Democratic Party with an “empty stomach”.

Jonathan state this when the PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation submitted its report on the 2015 general elections at the Presidential Villa in Abuja today.
He advised those members already planning to quit the party for others not to do so in their own interest.
According to Jonathan, these people are running and some of them already cross carpeting, they will come back with empty stomach.
Jonathan said that PDP was still the most organised party and one that nobody owned.
“PDP is still the party that whatever you are, you can get to any level based on your competencies.
“So I will encourage members of our party to remain faithful, not to be so disillusioned because we lost presidential election and you decide to go to where you feel they will fill their stomach.”
He urged members to be committed to the party, adding that although, there would be challenges at the beginning, the party would come out stronger and successful.
The president said that the key thing was for the nation to move forward, rather than the loss of election.
He said this was not the first time an incumbent would lose election in the world.
Jonathan stated that the party was still the dominant party, adding that now that the elections were over, Nigerians should put the nation first.
The president said he conceded defeat to save the country from chaos, adding that people would narrate different perspectives of the 2015 elections as the accounts given of the Nigerian/Biafran civil war.
He said political parties could only thrive if there was a country.
Jonathan said that he was not the only person that made sacrifice, although he made the pronouncement of conceding defeat.
Ealier, the Chairman of the PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, the Chairman of the Campaign organisation, Ahmadu Ali, and Vice President Namadi Sambo, respectively said that the party lost the elections but won peace for the country.
They hailed Jonathan for the decision he took after the polls, adding that the world would continue to respect him for conceding defeat.