Adedeji Doherty, immediate past Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State, says the party now has grassroots structure and state executive to win the 2023 elections.
Doherty said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
He said that lack of structure at the grassroots and candidate imposition had resulted in the failure of the party in previous elections.
According to him, the Feb. 27 Elective State Congress of the party remains a watershed for the party to recruit executive members bent on nothing but winning elections in the state.
“After serving as chairman in Lagos state, I can categorically say that disunity is not the problem of PDP winning election in the state but non existence of structures at the grassroots level, which has now been created in the last state congress.
“We have between 500,000 and 600,000 registered people now as members of PDP in Lagos.
“We lost elections because we don’t have the structure; if you don’t have the structure, you cannot spend money in the right place.
“The structure is already on ground to win election. We are working now. We are galvanising people and everybody has to be onboard,” Doherty said.
He said that imposition and selection had been the major setback for PDP, adding that they always created divisions and disunity in the party.
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