FINALLY! Goodluck Jonathan Declares Interest To Contest In 2015

President Goodluck Jonathan has
finally announced his interest to
contest in the 2015 presidential
election, informing leaders of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on
Thursday that he would get the
nomination form of the party before
the deadline.
The party had said it would not shift the deadline for the
procurement of nomination forms.
Jonathan's body language over time had also shown that he
was prepared to seek re-election even though his government
is believed to have carried along with it, a
baggage of various challenges.
To ensure a successful declaration exercise that is scheduled
for between 7th and 15th November, the President has set up
a Presidential Declaration Committee headed by Dr. Haliru
Bello, a former Minister of Defence, to prepare the
programme for the declaration.
You Will Loose Our State, PDP
Faction Tells Jonathan However, as the split in the Ebonyi
State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gets
intense, a faction of the warring party members have warned
President Goodluck Jonathan of a likelihood that he would
loose the state in the 2015 general elections.
At a press briefing in Abuja on Thursday, the aggrieved faction
said it could no longer bear the excesses of the state
governor, Mr. Martin Elechi, accusing the governor of
imposing candidates on the party in the State with reckless
abandon.
The faction, led by Mike Awo, said,
because of the provocation, many people in the state could
embark on a protest vote against the candidates and the
President in the forthcoming elections.
The group said part of Elechi's high-handedness was that he
had ensured that a meeting of the party caucus, as provided
for in the constitution, had never been held since 2007 when
Elechi won as
governor and that the governor alone had been acting on
behalf of the party without carrying others along.
According to the faction, during the last state congress, many
of members showed interest to contest for party positions but
were not even allowed to obtain the nomination forms, let
alone further their desires to contest the election.
Awo said it may interest people to knowbthat the party in
Ebonyi State compromises of aggrieved members and that the
former state chairman of the party was intimidated to resign
and
leave the way for a stooge who would do the bidding of the
governor.

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