Jonathan Remains PDP's Candidate For 2015 Elections - Tukur

The national chairman of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),
Alhaji Bamanga Tukur has declared
that President Goodluck Jonathan
is the party’s presidential candidate
in 2015 general elections.

Bamanga
Tukur disclosed this during the
inauguration of National PDP
Councillors’ Forum in Abuja. He
further told the party faithful not to
be deterred by people leaving for
other parties saying that even if
they leave the PDP the party
remains.

He further maintained that
PDP remains the strongest and
biggest party in Nigeria and Africa
insisting that the party is
insurmountable.

He said, “Don’t be deterred by
some people saying they are
leaving the party. People leaving
the party are individuals not the
party. It doesn’t mean if they leave
the party the party leaves. No, the
party remains. PDP is the only
party in Nigeria that fields a
candidate in every election that is
held. Don’t be deterred; don’t be
afraid, you are part of the ruling
party.”

He further tasked the councillors on
the role they have to play in making
sure that Jonathan wins the 2015
election.

In his remarks the former
governorship candidate of the PDP
in Edo State Major General Charles
Arhiavbere(rtd) said the
inauguration showed that the
members of PDP are solidly behind
President Goodluck Jonathan even
as he advised the executives to
reach out to the 13 states including
Edo State that is not under PDP
and bring them under the umbrella
of the party.

Speaking on the letter written to
President Jonathan by former
president Olusegun Obasanjo, the
former governor of Bayelsa State,
Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha said
that Obasanjo should play a
fatherly role and stop acting the
way he was doing. He maintained
that Obasanjo’s present style was
what made the former head of state
late General Sani Abacha to put
him in prison.

He said, “That was exactly what he
was doing till Abacha put him in
prison, the same style, he has
started again. Anyway I don’t think
he has advisers. If he has advisers
they will call him to order . He is
not the only statesman we have in
this country. Yes, I respect him as
former president. He has
contributed also to the sustenance
of democracy even in the military,
he played a significant role. We
acknowledge all that but power is
transit. When you finish your tenure
you hand over the baton to others
and support the person in power
and not to pull him down,” he
added.