He said the challenges being witnessed in the PDP were parts of the characteristics of big organisations like the party worldwide.
Shema spoke in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after meeting with Vice President Namadi Sambo.
He said service delivery would give the ruling party a edge in the state.
When asked specifically on whether Buhari would not be a factor since he hails from the state, the governor said he was not in the habit of discussing other parties or individuals.
“You know my business is that of the PDP and that of the people and leaders of the PDP. That’s how it starts and that’s how it ends. I don’t take time discussing other parties or other individuals. My party is doing very well and we will even do more for Nigerians in Katsina and other parts of Nigeria,” he said.
Shema said he was confident that the PDP would do well in the 2015 elections because his administration had done a lot of work.
He said he had a strong belief in the fact that politics was about service delivery and fear of God.
He said, “I am very confident because we have done a lot of work. Go there and see for yourself. Politics is about service, it is about fear of God, it is about managing resources, human and material.”
Meanwhile, youths from the Niger Delta under the aegis of Niger Delta Youth Progressives Movement on Tuesday welcomed the defection of some governors and leaders of the New PDP to the APC saying the decision was “good for democracy because freedom of association is paramount for any democratic setting.”
The group in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Frank Preye-Ebi, after an emergency meeting in Abuja to appraise recent political developments in the country, specifically commended the immediate-past National Youth Leader of the new PDP, Preye-Ebi for his decision to defect to the APC.
The youths lamented that the PDP had not only failed the people of Niger Delta but the entire nation under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan.
They urged Preye-Ebi to continue to demonstrate his leadership ability that had stood him out as a man that could be trusted.
They also urged the ex-youth leader to use his new political sojourn to expand the horizon of the APC in the Niger Delta, most especially in winning more states for the party in the region.
They further disclosed that plans were at an advanced stage to organise a befitting state reception for an “uncommon youth leader” Frank, as a mark of honour for continuously championing the cause of youths and the down trodden in the Niger Delta region and beyond.
The youth body also commended the five governors who recently defected to the APC, “especially our own sons, Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and the former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva” for taking this “noble step” in spite of intimidation and unwarranted harassment by agents of the present administration.
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