Former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) remains Nigeria’s strongest and biggest party despite losing the 2015 presidential election, and will win the next general election.

According to Ceoafrica, Jonathan said current efforts at reforming the party are “a clear sign” that the PDP will win in 2019.

The former president, who made the statement in Abuja yesterday while receiving a report from the Strategy Review and Inter-Party Affairs Committee of the PDP, said that “Yes we lost the presidential election but that doesn’t diminish us. Every other party still knows that PDP is a leading party”.

“Losing the presidency is something temporary. We should be able to get that position back as long as we are able to get our acts together. I am happy that you people are working towards that”, he said.

Goodluck Jonathan was the party’s candidate in the 2015 election, but lost to the then opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.