No 2nd term For Non-Performing Governors – PDP

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The Acting National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Kawu Baraje, has said the party will not give its ticket to "non-performing governors" and other elected officials to run for second term.

Baraje said this when he received Gombe State Governor, Ibrahim Dankwambo, at the party's national secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday.

He said only those who performed among its elected officials would be given an opportunity to run again.

Baraje said the result of the April general elections had shown that the electorate was more sophisticated and might not vote for elected officials that did not do well during their first tenure.

He said Nigerians were prepared to vote out any political party that refused to live up to its campaign promises.

Baraje said, "We want to know how you are performing. We want to assess how you are performing so that we will be able to assess you and put you forward or otherwise in the next election, because the electorate has developed to that level.

"The awareness of the electorate today has got to the level that any political party in Nigeria in 2015 that does not perform; that doesn't have anything to show from its manifestoes, will fail."

He said the party's mechanism of assessing its elected officials had been strengthened to an extent that at any given period, assessment sheet would be given to its political office-holders.

Dankwambo said the state was a "one-party state," regretting that there was an intra-party crisis among members of the party in the state.

He urged members of the party to come together to stop the opposition from winning any election in the state.

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