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PDP flags off campaigns in Lagos Wednesday

President Goodluck Jonathan at a Presidential rally

PDP flags off campaigns in Lagos Wednesday

byFestus Owete
January 6, 2015
2 min read
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will on Wednesday formally kick off its campaigns for the February elections, President Goodluck Jonathan has said.

The president, who disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday at the inauguration of the Presidential Campaign Council, said he and the party’s governorship candidates in all the states in the elections would be presented with its flags.

He said the handing over of flags to other categories of candidates would be subsequently worked out by the PDP National Chairman, Adamu Mu’azu.

“Tomorrow we are going to flag off the campaigns and before it used to be flagging off of the presidential campaign. In 2011 we did it in Nasarawa,” Mr. Jonathan, who is the PDP presidential candidate in the election, said.

“So it was just for the president where the president will be given the flag and then of course we go to the zones and do for the governors. But because of the shortage of time and probably it could be a modification, so that what will happen in Lagos, that is why all party members must be interested, it is not a flag off for the presidential campaign alone, but flagging off of the PDP campaigns.

“The presidential candidate will be given the flag and all our governorship candidates will also be given their flags in Lagos. The party chairman will give subsequent directive on how they will manage the ones for the senators, House of Reps and for the State Assemblies.”

Lagos State in the South West geo-political zones, is not only ruled by the main opposition party, All progressives Congress, APC, but also has the largest voting population in Nigeria.

The state has always been governed by the opposition since 1999 when democratic rule returned to the country.

Mr. Jonathan also announced other modifications in the party’s campaign structure.

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According to him, unlike in the past, the Presidential Campaign Council would now oversee all the elections the party would be presenting candidates and not the presidential election alone.

He said, “We used to have what is called Presidential Campaign Council. When you say presidential campaign council the assumption is that that council is to oversee only the election of the presidential candidate. What we should have is the PDP national campaign council chaired by the national chairman of the PDP.

“We have inaugurated that body, that body should oversee all our elections. It is like a Board of Directors that oversees the management team that manages a company. We have the PDP national campaign council, not just the presidential campaign council.”

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He explained that the Contact Committee, which was earlier inaugurated by the party, was set up “because of the kinds of blackmail and sentiments and lies and religious issue that people are bringing into politics that we was supposed to develop our people.”

He added, “We created this. It may not be created every time but we thought that we should have it for this particular year. The DG (Ahmadu Ali) to be is supposed to be one of the key actors but now he is the DG of the Presidential Campaign Council.

“After today’s inauguration, they will move in to their respective states, respective zones.

The president charged the PDP governors to deliver their states during the polls, saying they would be held responsible if they failed to do so.

He said, “All the states we have governors, the governors are the coordinators. They must make sure that we win those states. If we lose you know you have failed us. The governors will be completely in charge. Some of them will be zonal coordinators (and) some of them will be state coordinators.”

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