(Election attitude) Arrogance Made Jonathan Lose 2015 Presidential Election – Sheriff

The chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ali Modu-Sheriff, has identified arrogance as the main reason why former president, Goodluck Jonathan lost the 2015 presidential election.

Speaking with ThisDay, Sheriff said things would have turned out differently if he had been the one in charge of the party then. He said the former ruling party had the opportunity to win but squandered it.

According to him, “So many factors contributed to Jonathan’s failure to win the elections… I know that arrogance was one of such issues and I also know that some of our party men and women sold out,”

“I may not be able to tell you everything now, but it is an open secret that even his own men worked against him. By the time we went into that election, so many things had happened which served as warning signals of failure, but they were ignored.

“If I were in charge, things would have been different. You can see even for the few weeks that we took charge; we have begun changing the old order of doing things.

“If I were in charge, I would not have allowed our members, especially people who control strategic states with large voting population, to move out of the party massively in the build up to the elections.”

Sheriff also spoke about his recent election as chairman of the PDP and the oppositions that he is facing from many quarters.

“It is normal for people to express dissenting opinions in such situations. Some people may have spoken against my choice, which I consider to be their right, but I don’t think it is right for you to say I emerged against popular opinion, because those who identified with me were actually more in number, but they did not deem it necessary to join issues with those who feel otherwise.

“If we do not have our own ideas, which we plan to inject and turn things round, we would not have accepted the responsibility to lead at this time,” he said.