Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said it had
collected signatures of 1.8 million people from the South-west who
wanted President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election come 2015
election.
The number, according to the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, was more than
the names collected from the South-east.
He said this while
collecting a booklet that contained the names of the people during the
South-west rally organized by the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria
(TAN). which took place at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan,
yesterday.
The rally was organised by several chieftains of the
PDP from the South-west states, viz: Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and
Ondo States.
In attendance at the event were the Chief of Staff to
the President, Jones Arogbofa; Chief Bode George; Oloye Jumoke Akinjide,
Minister of State, FCT, Minister of Police affairs, Alhaji Jelili
Adesiyan, Kingsley Kuku, Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta
Affairs; Prince Buruji Kashamu, PDP South-west leader; Senator Iyiola
Omisore; Otunba Adebayo-Alao-Akala, former Governor of Oyo State; former
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole; and Engr.
Seyi Makinde, PDP governorship aspirant; Mr. Ganiyu Olaoluwa; Yinka
Taiwo; Captain Kuji Sele; Ebenezer Alabi and Engr. Bayo Dayo, PDP state
chairmen from Osun, Oyo, Lagos, Ondo and Ogun States respectively.
Arogbofa,
while calling on people of the zone to join hands to give PDP
resounding victory during the 2015 elections, said, “I want to call on
my people to let’s work with unity of purpose and I can assure all of us
that if we work together, the reward will be superlative. We worked for
Mr. President in 2011 and we all can see that there’s no regret and
this time around, we will not regret but have more and better reward”.
Oloye Akinjide, in her remark, said anybody saying anything contrary was only deceiving him.
According
to her, the people of the zone would vote massively for President
Jonathan come 2015 in order for the zone to have more dividends of
democracy”.
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