S/West PDP shakes off defeat at 2011 polls as Tukur visits

FORMER Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, says the visit of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to the South West zone would help the party unseat the opposition party in the 2015 elections.
Tukur was in the zone on Friday to resolve the crises among various factions of the party. According to Folarin, the visit had served as a morale booster to the PDP since it lost to the opposition party.
He said  the exemplary leadership of Tukur and the teeming members of the PDP that received him had shown that he had the wherewithal to steer the ship of the party.
Thousands of members of the party stormed Ibadan metropolis to give the PDP helmsman a rousing welcome.
Tukur urged the teeming members and other stakeholders of the party to re-strategise ahead of the 2015 elections so that the party can achieve victory.
He told the party faithful to “reconcile and rebuild the party. You are the rightful people that should be in governance in your respective states.
If you don’t get power, you can’t serve your people. Please reconcile so that this can be achieved. South West is very strategic. Eliminate them with your votes. I want the caucus to meet and reconcile the parties”.
Mr. Chief Ishola Filani, leader of Caretaker Committee in the zone, said he had begun moves to reconcile aggrieved members of the party.
Akeem Taiwo, the Oyo State Chairman of the party, expressed optimism at the peace moves noting that they would strengthen and reposition the party.