PDP Will Be Back Stronger in 2019, Says Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Jonathan has said that PDP will be steonger back in 2019.Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday declared that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, remains the biggest and the strongest party in Nigeria, its defeat in the 2015 general elections by the All Progressives Congress, APC, notwithstanding.He said that the outcome of the last general elections, which the party lost to the APC, was a minor setback which he said did not diminish the party.Jonathan who spoke when he received a delegation of the PDP Strategy Review and Inter-party Committee which visited him at his private residence in Abuja, advocated for the strengthening of institutions in the country, while responding to a complaint over the independence of the Independent National Electoral Commission under this administration by his visitors.“I am among the persons who believe that for a nation to grow, the institutions must be very strong, just like you mentioned about INEC. There is no way a nation will grow with weak institutions because everything about politics is about the people, not about the individuals.“And as long you are interested in the people, you are interested in the growth of the society, the development of the nation, the only thing that will make the impossible possible is that the institutions must be strong.“You see, as powerful as America is, look at President Donald Trump’s decision and the court say no, you can’t do this and of course they have to shoot it down to move forward. That is the strength of an institution. That is the only way individuals could be regulated so that you can grow.”