Breaking News:- Jonathan Finally 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 know that 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.

“From the foregoing it is now very obvious that

if there is no intervention, PDP will die a natural

death in that state chapter and the President

stands the risk of losing election in Ebonyi State,”

Awo said adding that though the faction was not

against zoning in the State, the way and manner

the governor went about imposing candidates

smirks of hate and political delinquency.

Posted by Donatus Joshua at 12:34