Reacting to the major setback suffered by the ruling PTI in the first phase of the local body elections in Khyber Pakhtunkwa, Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday admitted that his party paid the price for making mistakes in the polls.
Taking to Twitter, PM Imran said that the selection of wrong candidates was the core reason behind their defeat in the elections in the province.
The premier’s statement came after the results showed that the PTI could not grab a single mayor seat out of the four contested in Sunday polls. The party could win one tehsil in Peshawar out of six tehsils in the city – from where it won all the seats in the 2018 General Elections.
“PTI made mistakes in 1st phase of KP LG elections and paid the price,” wrote the prime minister. He vowed to personally oversee the PTI’s election strategy in the second phase of KP local bodies polls and the LG elections across Pakistan.
“From now on I will personally be overseeing PTI’s LG election strategy in 2nd phase of KP LG elections and LG elections across Pakistan. InshaAllah PTI will come out stronger,” he added.
