Jonathan Hopeful of PDP's Sweeping Victory at Guber, Assembly Polls

President Goodluck Jonathan firmly believes that his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will record resounding success in the ongoing governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections across the country.

The president lost his re-election bid two weeks ago and heroically conceded defeat, placing a congratulatory phone call to his victorious opponent, Major General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Fielding questions from journalists after undergoing accreditation at his Ward 13, Unit 39, Otuoke, Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State this Saturday, the President expressed belief that the PDP’s overral performance would be better than that of March 28th Presidential and National Assembly elections.

“My conviction is that PDP will do well. It may probably do better in a number of states. In some states our performance will even improve,” he said.

The president added: “Even if you look at the last elections, our performance in some states improved. But in some states our performance was a bit low. I think that in the overall PDP will do well.”

The President arrived at his hometown of Otuoke at exactly 11a.m. to participate in the state houses of  assembly election and was accredited by the card reader within 10 seconds.

This is contrary to the experience he had two weeks ago when four card readers in that same polling unit could not read his finger print and he had to be accredited manually after standing for about 30 minutes.

Speaking on the development, the President said: “It is technology. There must be some minor errors and they have rectified the faults.  Although I am still hearing that we have some problems of rejection but I think INEC has a way of handling their assignment. The most important thing is that elections will be conducted.”

The President gave two reasons for the low voter turnout for the election in Otuoke compared to the March 28th polls, saying the stakes are usually higher for Presidential election, more so that there was no governorship election in Bayelsa state at this time.

He said: “Naturally different levels of elections elicit different interests. Presidential elections are quite interesting. Governorship elections are quite interesting. If we were to have a governorship elections in Bayelsa State, the mobilization would have been higher because you need to mobilise the voters to come out.

“But for State Assembly elections, the interest is not as high as the presidential elections or governorship elections.

“We expect low turnout for states that don’t have governorship elections.

There is no governorship elections in Bayelsa that is why the turn out may be low. ”

The President later came back from his house to cast his vote at 1:41p.m.