Director-General of the Friends of Democracy for Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Cairo Ojugboh on Thursday said that he was yet to be issued any directive to discontinue campaign for President Jonathan against 2011 thus he has not in any way flouted any law.
Ojugboh spoke just as the Chairman of the organization and Special Adviser to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji, also announced that President Jonathan would contest in 2011 with Vice President Namadi Sambo as running mate.
President Jonathan had on Tuesday directed his aides to stop campaigning for him towards 2011 general elections while he was yet to make up his mind.
However, Dr. Ojugboh, who was addressing members of the Friends of Nigeria for Goodluck Jonathan equally said the President was shy to participate in the 2011 elections owing to his belief in the rule of law. In his remarks, Senator Abba-Aji said the fact that President Jonathan would contest the 2011 election was no longer in doubt, adding that even if the President was initially not interested, the huge support of Nigerians in his favour would certainly make him to have a critical examination of the matter in order to accept the wishes of the majority of the people.
According to Senator Abba-Aji, “majority of Nigerians want President Jonathan to contest the 2011 election. We are not talking about zoning or no zoning, but concerned about having someone that mean well for the country to contest the 2011 election in the interest of the majority of Nigerians.”
Speaking earlier, Dr. Ojugboh, who is also the Special Assistant to the President on Legislative Matters (Senate) said that it would be unfair for some few powerful groups that had held the nation for too long to want to stop a divine cause. He thus enjoined Nigerians to join the campaign to get President Jonathan to contest the 2011 presidential election.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the Mobilization Committee of the Friends of Democracy for Goodluck Jonathan, Senator Ibrahim Mantu urged members of the organization to go to their various zones and establish zonal committees, saying the next level of the campaign would be moving to the grassroots.
Senator Mantu said President Jonathan being a grassroot politician, would prefer to meet people in the rural areas and not the urban centers with large concentration of those that are clamouring for the retention of zoning arrangement that had been overtaken by political realities.
Members of the group that gathered in Abuja for the one day general meeting and formation as well as expansion of sub-committees were drawn from all the states of the federation.
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