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I still hope we (PDP) will win at the Supreme Court, but if a decision is made, we must be prepared to come down state by state to resolve the crisis created before the elections. We can disagree, but we must not be disagreeable. Everybody knows there’s no oneness in our party. It was a divided party, so the opposition was able to manipulate it. They gave us an uppercut.
- Chief Bode George
ex-Military Governor of Ondo State in Nigeria