Thought they said they won't consider it.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
announced automatic tickets for its
governors seeking second terms in office.
The offer means the governors will have to
refuse to run before other candidates are
considered.
The only the PDP governor seeking a second
term is Ibrahim Dakwambo of Gombe State.
While the governors of Kaduna, Taraba and
Adamawa States may be seeking re-election,
they will be starting their first term as they
merely completed the terms of their former
governors.
It also emerged Tuesday that President
Goodluck Jonathan was only publicly
endorsed as the sole candidate of the party
after he had been given the right of first
refusal.
Adamu Mu’azu, the PDP National Chairman
said Thursday that the party leadership had
decided to give automatic tickets to state
governors running for second term, who had
performed creditably well, to re-contest their
position in 2015.
According to him, the governors will be given
the right of first refusal.
Mr. Muazu spoke when the president
obtained his nomination forms at the party
office in Aubja on Thursday.
Mr. Jonathan assured Nigerians that he
would continue to work with them to move
the country forward.
The president said that no matter how
strong a president was across the world, he
was only an individual that on his own, could
do nothing.
“You alone cannot change the society. For
you to succeed, you work with people; so if
you are succeeding that means we have a
team that is working to transform this
country.
“So I will work with all Nigerians to make
sure that we move our country to the next
level”, the president said.
He said the days of saying that Nigeria was
a potential great country was over, adding
that, “Nigeria is a great country”.
This, he said, was demonstrated in the way
the country collectively handled the Ebola
case with the whole world being happy with
Nigeria.
President Jonathan, however, added that it
was time for all hands to be on deck to
move the country to the desired level in the
years to come.
He thanked Nigerians generally and
reassured that his administration would not
let the people down.
The president also expressed gratitude to the
PDP leadership for giving him the right of
first refusal.
“First let me thank God for today and
Nigerians that are here today for this brief
ceremony.
“Let me thank the leadership and all
members of our party for believing in me and
for giving me the right of first refusal.
“I could have still picked the forms if they did
not give me, but giving me the right of first
refusal has attracted more people that
ordinarily it would have had”, the president
said.
He specifically thanked the PDP national
chairman and members of the party`s
National Executive Committee, NEC, for
unanimously endorsing the decision of its
other organs that adopted him as the party’s
sole candidate for the 2015 presidential
election.
The president also thanked the PDP
Governors’ Forum for providing the N22
million for purchasing the nomination and
expression of interest forms for the election.
He thanked members of the Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, and other
Nigerians for their contributions towards the
purchase of the forms.
“I remain most grateful for their gesture and
I thank them for believing first in this
country, secondly for believing in the PDP
because they know that this form is for the
PDP ticket and lastly, for believing in me”, he
said.
(NAN)
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