Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs and former Chairman, Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku, has declared that no party can defeat the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State in next year’s governorship election in the state.

Kuku, in an interview with journalists in Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday, also said the PDP was battle-ready to retain the seat by winning the next governorship election in the state.

He said, “I want to tell you that Ondo State is a PDP state and will remain a PDP state even after (Governor Olusegun) Mimiko has left. From the beginning, any time you see PDP losing in election in this state, it will be as a result of the unresolved crisis within the party.

“Look at what happened in the last general elections. We lost the Presidential election in this state because we could not resolve our internal crisis, but when we were able to settle the matter and begged one another, then see the result of the House of Assembly election. This shows if there is no crisis, no party can defeat us.”

Kuku said the governorship might move to either the northern or southern senatorial district of the state, noting that the incumbent, Mimiko, is from Ondo in the central senatorial district.

He believed that it would be more appropriate if the next state governor should emerge from the other two senatorial districts.

“I am not saying our members from the Central Senatorial District are not  constitutionally qualified to contest the election, but I think it would be much better if the governorship seat can move to either the North or South Senatorial District. You know our (incumbent) governor is from the Central Senatorial district,” he added.