They have finally come clean, PDP has confirmed that President Goodluck Jonathan
will run for Presidency come 2015....see the report from SaharaReporters
below....so who will be voting for the President??
Any lingering cobwebs as to whether President Goodluck Jonathan will seek to keep his job in 2015 were dispelled today when the National Women’s Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Kema Chikwe, asserted the President will return to office.Chikwe, a former Minister, is a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party, which has 12 members.She was speaking in Abuja at the presentation of the “PDP Women-In-Power 2013 Calendar” in the presence of the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, who was seen nodding in agreement with Chikwe's statement.
She
said that the next “dispensation,” will possibly attract PDP female governors
and more deputy governors, but was far more eloquent on the nation’s top
political position.
“We
are even more confident that when President Goodluck Jonathan returns in 2015,
women would be talking about 50 per cent and not 35 per cent,” she said.
“As we give him unequivocal, undiluted, unresolved and unlimited support and as
we march with him to 2015, PDP women will reach the promised land.”
In
a speech dripping with sycophancy, she asked Mrs. Jonathan and the Secretary to
the Government of the Federation, Mr. Anyim Pius Anyim, who represented the
President at the occasion, “to convey our deep gratitude to the Father of the
Day,” President Jonathan.
"Tell
him that PDP women are chanting to Nigeria: 'All we are saying, give us
Goodluck.'”
Mrs.
Jonathan took the opportunity to appeal to the Senate to pass the controversial
N4bn budget proposal of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen.
Bala Mohammed, for the building of the controversial Africa First Ladies
Mission building in Abuja. Protesting Nigerians have argued that the
funds will be looted, rather than used for such a project, and that they would in
any event prefer that such funds were deployed into education, health or
infrastructure.
Mrs.
Chikwe’s declaration concerning Jonathan’s 2015 political ambitions is in
direct contradiction to what Mr. Jonathan himself said just 24 hours ago.
Speaking
through a Special Senior Assistant, Mr. Doyin Okupe, the president said, “From
time immemorial, for every major event or contest in the world, there is always
a time and a season apportioned.
“We
wish to state categorically that this is neither the time nor the season to
begin electioneering campaign or related discourse for the 2015 presidential
elections and so President Goodluck Jonathan will not jump the gun.”
He
added that Mr. Jonathan would therefore “stoutly resist any disguised or open
attempt to drag him into any debates, arguments or political discussions
relating to a presidential election in 2015.”
A
political observer who heard Chikwe’s statement today told SaharaReporters that
the PDP reality is a case of the-more-you-look-the-less-you-see.
“Unless
the PDP rigs the 2015 election, there is no way that Jonathan—on the basis of
his performance so far--can win the presidential election,” he said.
“So
anyone singing ‘Give Us Goodluck,’ if indeed anyone has thought of such a song,
is someone that is really campaigning for the opposition, who should be
applauding Mrs. Chikwe and the PDP chaos at this point.”
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