Apga endorse Jonathan 2015

2015: APGA OFFERS ACCORD, ENDORSES JONATHAN.

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Barely 21 days after the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) took Awka, the Anambra state capital by storm in its maiden on-going nationwide zonal rallies in South-East attracting thousands of faithful from across Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Abia and Imo states, to implore President Goodluck Jonathan to seek a renewal of his mandate in next year’s presidential election, the people of Anambra state under the umbrella of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) again yesterday trooped out in their numbers at the Ekwueme Park Awka where they endorsed and adopted the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Dr Goodluck Jonathan as their party’s candidate for the 2015 election.

The party, through its national chairman and its Anambra Central Senatorial Candidate in the coming 2015 election, Chief Victor Umeh used the occasion to extend a warm hand of fellowship to the President and his Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) for “an accord towards a successful presidential election support in 2015”, Umeh disclosed.

The occasion which was put together by a Non-Governmental Organization, Join Jonathan Journey(JJJ) operating within the party attracted an unprecedented crowd that joined governor, Chief  Willie Obiano to pass their message to Jonathan.

In his welcome address, the director general of the social advocacy group operating in APGA, Hon Ben Oranusi said that JJJ was a vision initiated and executed by Anambra people and the entire Ndigbo who predominantly belong to the APGA.

Hon Oranusi revealed that no singular organization has the capability to pledge the support of Anambra state as they are not on ground and cannot be in control of the army of APGA followers in the twenty-one local government areas.

He urged the governor to take the JJJ message to the other south-east states and indeed the entire nation wherever the Igbos are found to drum support for the re-election of Dr Jonathan. The group also expressed their desire to champion the re-election of the state governor, come 2018, noting that his group is not a creation of the media and has solid base in Igbo-land .

The national leader of JJJ , Chief Ben Obi while speaking at the occasion said emphatically that nobody in Anambra state has the moral right to pledge the support of the state to the president except the governor who has proved to be the messiah the state has waited earnestly for.

The national chairman of APGA who is also an aspirant to the senate, Chief Victor Umeh pointed out that he authorized the formation of the non-governmental organization to carry out advocacy activities within the party.

He recalled that his party in 2011 endorsed president Jonathan and that the party worked tirelessly to ensure that maximum votes was garnered for him.

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