Nigeria’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it is poised to reclaim all the elective positions it lost in the South-East of the country in 2019.

Inaugurating the PDP Youth Alliance, South-East Zone over the weekend, the National Coordinator of the party, Dr Charles Omini who represented the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus said the party was set to reclaim the South-East which had been its stronghold since 1999.

He said the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was able to capture some positions in the region due to some few mistakes by the PDP, adding that with the dismal performance of the President Muhammadu Buhari – led administration, it would be an easy ride for the PDP in 2019.

Omini said: “Within the last three years, all has not been well with Nigeria. We ended up having a situation where we put a bad tyre in a new vehicle.

“We delivered our mandate to a party that has now unleashed killer Fulani herdsmen on all of us; a party that has taken the country 60 percent backward.

“They thrive in making the people of this country suffer and that is why as we speak, they have plans to even make a litre of fuel ₦300.

“This is a government that claimed it came to fight corruption but look at all the indices, including the report from the Transparency International. They have failed in all areas, economy, security, anti-corruption.

“So, with the mandate we have and the capable hands we are inaugurating here today, the APC will not exist in the South-East beyond 2019. Let us consolidate on the campaign they have already done for us, which is over 80 percent.”

Responding, Hon. Chinedu Nwamba, the member representing Nsukka East Constituency in the Enugu State House of Assembly who was inaugurated as the South-East coordinator of the PDP youth group said it was time for the PDP to take over the region by mobilizing people, putting structures in place and retake all the positions they lost to the APC.