Speaking during the party’s rally in North-Central, held at the Trade Fair complex opposite the Ibrahim Babangida University Guest House, Minna, Niger State on Saturday, President Goodluck Jonathan, national chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mua’zu, Senate President, David Mark and PDP governors’ forum chairman, Godswill Akpabio all expressed the party’s preparedness to reclaim Nasarawa and Kwara states.

The president, who likened opposition political parties in the country to chamelions for changing their names, logos and slogans several times since the inception of the current democratic experience  in the country, described their members as retogressive politicians for defecting from one party to the other.

He described the PDP as the only consistent party in the country, highlighting that despite the defection of some five governors from the PDP to the All Progressive Congress (APC), the PDP  had been waxing stronger and maintaining its dominant status as a political party.

“PDP is the only party that has not changed colours  from the beginning, we remain with PDP from the beginning, the slogan is the same... So, if some people today say they are political leaders and say let us go to the red  party and tomorrow they say let us  move to the blue party, they are chamelions and chamelions cannot be trusted,” Jonathan said.

“We [PDP] will retain the North-Central States and we will surely recover Nasarawa and Kwara states so that we can start to reconstruct them for the betterment of the people,” the president added.

Also in his remarks, Mu’azu advised the Niger State governor Dr. Babangida Aliyu to urge defected governors to come back to the PDP, saying: “Governor Aliyu, you saw the light at the end of the tunnel. Go tell them that we will treat them equally, whatever has happened has happened. There’s light at the end of the tunnel”.

Meanwhile, former national chairman of the party and a member of the Board of Trustees, Dr Ahmadu Ali charged President Jonathan to continue in 2015.

Mark assured President Jonathan, in his remarks, that plans were in top gear to ensure the Nasarawa State governor, Umaru Tanko Al-makura joined the PDP because his deputy has joined the ruling party.