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The national
chairman of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Ogbonnaya Onu said at
the weekend that the party will take back Bauchi State from the Peoples
Democratic Party during the 2011 gubernatorial elections.

Speaking during his
visit to the state, Mr Onu said it naturally belongs to the party,
until its governor, Isa Yuguda defected to the PDP. He said that the
party structure in the state is still intact and vowed that it will
return to power unfailingly next year.

He called on
Nigerians to give the ANPP a chance to govern the country, noting that
since the PDP came to office, it has not changed the lives of Nigerians.

The ANPP boss said
with free and fair elections next year, the party will win in many
state and at the same time produce the president of the country because
it was not formed to be an opposition party.

He added that the
position of the party during the recent public hearing on the amendment
of the Electoral Act 2010 is that electoral results must reflect the
wishes of the people of Nigeria and anybody who wins election on a
party’s platform and decides to defect should surrender the mandate to
the party and go for a fresh election.

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While in Adamawa
State, Mr Onu urged members of the party to participate in the
forthcoming voters’ registration “because it is the first step of
attaining victory.” According to him, their participation will help to
eradicate the mysterious names that exist in the register and which
were used to rig elections. Mr Onu informed the party members that the
national leadership has constituted a Contact Committee charged with
the responsibility of reaching out to the members of the party, who
left the party for different reason and bring them back.

He also urged members of the party to go all out and get more
supporters so that PDP will have no place to run to in Adamawa State.