Goodluck Supports Two Party System

President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday unveiled his preference for a two-party state with the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and just one other party contesting the 2015 elections.

Addressing the PDP NEC meeting in Abuja the president said that the dominance of the party had forced opposition parties to come together, which he said would help stabilise the polity.

He said: “One good thing that Nigerians should commend PDP for now is that if you look at the evolution of political parties, it is now stable.

Before, when elections are coming, by now you will be hearing about new parties being formed and at a time, the ballot paper was becoming too long, INEC was finding a way of deregistering parties.

“Because PDP has come on very strong, no matter the criticism they are criticising us, they know that we are very strong and they realise that what they need to do is not forming new parties but parties coming together. So, we are helping to stabilise the polity. “We will encourage them to come together the more.

We want a situation where it is PDP versus one. In that case, the polity will be more stable. Even our members will be more loyal to the party because you will have nowhere to go. “So, Nigerians should commend PDP. If PDP were weak, people wouldn’t have gathered together.

There wouldn’t have been any reason for parties to come together to fight PDP. But when you have so many parties on their own they know they cannot face us until they come together then you know that we are formidable. “And PDP will become stronger and no matter the gang up, I don’t see how they can uproot the PDP,” he stressed.