By Dapo Akinrefon,

Lagos—FORMER Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George has attributed the party’s dismal performance in the 2015 elections to the camp of a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro.

Bode George..Holding Lagos

He also reassured PDP members that the party will bounce back in the 2019 presidential and governorship elections.

He said this yesterday, during a stakeholders’ meeting of party members at the party’s secretariat in Lagos.

The general assembly, attracted chieftains including the PDP state chairman, Tunji Shelle; the party’s governorship candidate in the 2015 poll, Mr. Jimi Agbaje; former ministers, Adeseye Ogunlewe and Abimbola Ogunkelu and lawmakers elected on the platform of the party at the state and federal level.

Sensitising members of the party ahead of the party’s congresses and national convention, he said: “We were defeated by the agent provocateurs within our ranks. We were defeated by political renegades who merely invested in their own greedy and selfish interests.