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Frederick Faseun, National Chairman, Unity Party of Nigeria

Frederick Faseun, National Chairman, Unity Party of Nigeria

Faseun’s party, UPN, adopts Jonathan as own presidential candidate

byPremium Times
January 10, 2015
2 min read

The Unity Party of Nigeria [UPN] on Friday adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as its presidential candidate for the February 14 polls.

The party announced the adoption of Mr. Jonathan at its first National Convention to elect new officers, which was held in Lagos.

There had been controversy over the authentic leadership of the party but that appears to have now been resolved with the emergence of Frederick Faseun as National Chairman.

Speaking after the ratification of the new executives by members of the party from across the nation, Mr. Faseun said the UPN was a new party and needed time to take roots in all parts of the country.

He said, “We are still a young party and that is why we are not fielding a presidential candidate.

“We have asked our members who we are to support. We felt their pulse and it was moving in a particular direction.

“Allowing President Jonathan to continue in office for another four-year term will allow for the maturation of his infrastructural and socio-economic programmes.

“It will also guarantee continuity in development policies which a new government may likely abort.

“We are not confused about those we know that do not deserve our votes and our precious support.

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“Therefore, the UPN will support Jonathan in next month’s election. We have endorsed him as our candidate.

“The national convention hereby resolves that all UPN structures and members nationwide will work for Jonathan.”

Mr. Faseun lamented that Nigerian politics had become peopled by politicians without ideals or ideology.

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“That informs why a politician can be in the ruling party in one minute and suddenly cross-carpets to the opposition party in the next minute and no one would see anything wrong with it.

” We cannot afford to run the country this way and UPN has come to change the game,” he said.

According to him, the party will devote its energy to playing a people-driven politics, ignite the confidence of citizens and uphold the sanctity of the general elections.

At the convention, Yuusul Ariyo was elected National Secretary, Okey Nwanneri National Treasurer and Niyi Ajewole  National Legal Adviser among others.

Modupe Onitiri-Abiola, the wife of the late MKO Abiola, was announced as the party’s governorship candidate for Lagos state.

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