As preparations are underway towards 2015 governorship election in Lagos state, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has vowed to reclaim the state from the incumbent All Progressive Congress, APC.

PDP made this known at a seminar organised by the Alimosho Local Government chapter of the PDP with the theme: “Demystifying the power of incumbency”

Members of the party said they had all it takes to oust the All Progressives Congress in Lagos, but had unfortunately suffered electoral setbacks due to disunity amongst them.

Speaking at the event, the Chairman of PDP in Lagos, Capt. Tunji Shelle, said the PDP was a party to beat in the 2015 governorship election.

He said, “PDP has been in Lagos since 1998, but we have not won the state. We are here to find the cause of the problem. We need to be focused and work together as a team. I believe APC is surmountable.”

Shelle added that being the largest local government in the state, Alimosho would do everything humanly possible to ensure the party wins come 2015.

Also speaking at the event, Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly, Mrs. Titi Oseni, said PDP in Lagos and other states in the South-West had been plagued by factionalisation and poor internal democracy.

She said, “One thing that is painfully true about our party in Lagos State in the past years, is the undeniable fact that we lack cohesion, discipline, unity and therefore at every past election worked at cross purposes. We have prosecuted our electoral battles in the past, as people who are at war against themselves. The seed of this problem, in itself, is sown by insincere leadership. We run leadership structure that is incompatible with our political nature. Imposition of candidates and ‘take it or leave it’ attitude are quite contradictory and self-defeating in a political organisation where freedom and democratic ethos are created,” she added.