Jonathan Never Told Anybody He Would Serve For One Term; He Will Contest In 2015 – PDP

In about a year to the 2015 presidential elections, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has further stressed that President Goodluck Jonathan did not sign any agreement to serve for a single term in office.

 The Deputy National Chairman of the PDP, Prince Uche Secondus, made this known while fielding question from newsmen in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Saturday.

It would be recalled that ex-president, chief Olusegun Obasanjo in a recent interview averred that Jonathan promised not to serve beyond one term.

Apparently, reacting to OBJ’s statement, Secondus affirmed that the President would contest in the next year’s presidential poll based on the provisions of the country’s constitution.
“I am not aware of any agreement that President Jonathan entered into with anyone or group in 2011 that he will only serve as President for one term. I have also not seen any agreement. No one or group has been able to produce such a document. The PDP has no knowledge of such a document,” he said.

Adding his voice to the ongoing controversy surrounding some oil wells in Rivers State, the party chieftain said that the media was not the right platform to discuss the issue, but through the courts.

He said, “The matter is in court. So, I cannot offer any further comment on that. But Governor Rotimi Amaechi should stop playing politics with the issue of Soku oil wells.
“Amaechi has been politicising the issue of Soku oil wells. The issue of Soku oil wells cannot be settled on the pages of newspapers."

On the ongoing efforts by the ruling party to bring back its defected members, Secondus said that the National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, had been working round the clock to make it happen.

He added that Amaechi would automatically become the leader of the PDP if he (Amaechi) agrees to return to the party.

“The governors, like every other Nigerian, have one vote. The governors do not keep the votes of those who will vote in the villages and towns in their states in their respective government houses.

“They vote on election day like any other voter. So, we should not give a man the powers that he does not deserve,” the PDP deputy national chairman said.

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