PPA adopts Jonathan its presidential candidate

With just about 2 days to the presidential election, the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, has adopted the presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan as candidate of the party for the Saturday’s poll.

The party’s National Chairman, Mr Peter Ameh, who addressed newsmen on the decision of the National Working Committee, NWC, at the PPA national Secretariat, yesterday, in Abuja, said members of the party were determined to work round the clock to ensure Jonathan returns to office May 29, 2015.

Ameh also denied that the party was being blackmailed, bribed or pressurised to adopt Jonathan, saying that the president’s adoption was based on merit. He explained “We adopted President Jonathan in line with the spirit of progressive continuity.”

He said that members of the party were unanimous in their stance to back Jonathan in the interest of sustaining democratic and national development.

Ameh explained that “the party’s declaration of support for Jonathan’ re-election on March 28, was based on merit as the decision was taken after considering the level of development strides, the Transformation Agenda this administration has brought to bear on the lives of our people.”

According to him: “This Transformational reforms cuts across all sectors of our society from power with the building of Dams in some major part of the country including Gombe, Taraba States amongst others to meet our agricultural and energy needs.” 

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