Skip to main content

“PDP’s victory will free Lagos residents from oppression” President Jonathan




The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, standard bearer in the March 28 election, Dr. President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that the victory of his party in the forthcoming general elections would free Lagos residents from oppression.
He made this declaration in Lagos on Friday when leaders of market women groups, known as Iyalojas, in Lagos and environs, paid him a solidarity visit at the State House in Marina, Lagos.
Jonathan, who spoke in reaction to the complaint of highhandedness and witch-hunting made by the market women against the All Progressives Congress-led Lagos State Government, told his guest, as well as all traders in the country that the PDP administration would provide the enabling environment for them to ply their trades.
“Our victory at the polls will free all Lagos traders from oppression. You need to be free; we will remove Lagos from bondage,” he said.
While appreciating the women for supporting his re-election bid, he urged them not to be intimidated by their opponents.
In Jonathan’s words, “I have listened to you; you have been carrying the PDP flag; you have been humiliated but you still marched on.
“Thank you for working hard for PDP; this is the final struggle and time for us to use all our strength to achieve victory.
“If we struggle and win Lagos State, everybody will do his business without being harassed or intimidated,” he asserted.
In an earlier remark, leader of the market women, Hajia Aminat Hussein, told the PDP candidate that they had stood behind PDP since its inception but regretted that their members suffered harassment under the government in Lagos State.
She stressed that despite attempts by the APC “to buy over many of the market women”, the women would mobilize themselves in the state and in other states to ensure the reelection of the president.
“We are promising you that you will not lose in Lagos; this coming election is for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and God is with you,” she stated.
Also speaking, a PDP gubernatorial aspirant in Lagos State and current ministerial-nominee, Musiliu Obanikoro, who led the group, told Jonathan that the group was working hard to make the world know that the ruling party in Lagos “are not untouchables.”
According to him, “These women are more concerned about the reality than news in the social media. APC will be shocked on election’s day; we believe in our President.
 “I do not know of any president that is as humble as Jonathan. If you have such a man as President, your interest will be protected,” Obanikoro boasted.

Bottom of Form

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

“Stop Harassing Atiku’s Business Interests”- CC Okirie

A Port Harcourt based businessman and politician Chief Chukwuma C. Okirie has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria not to use or allow any of its agencies, parastatals or departments to be used in intimidating or harassing any business interest (s) of former vice President Alhaji Abubakar Atiku. Chief CC Okirie who is also the National Coordinator of  Project AA a socio political group with wide follower-ship across the country said the former vice president of the country has sacrificed so much for democracy in the country and should not be subjected to any form of harassment due to his political ideology or aspiration. Chief Okirie who briefed newsmen during the meet the media chat with newsmen on the activities of his group PROJECT AA said it was high time Nigerians are allowed to speak their minds or aspire for any position of their choice without being witch hunted by authourities.  He lamented that some people who believe they have some people in particular...
Post a Comment
Read more

Support For GEJ: C C Okirie Commends PDP In Rivers State

A frontline politician in Rivers State Chief Chukwuma Chinwa Oikrie has commended the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers state under the leadership of Bro. Felix Obuah (Go Round) for the support the party has given to President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid. Chief Okirie made this known at Omoku Town the headquarters of Ogba/ Egbema / Ndoni local government area over the weekend when the Party opened the Campaign Office of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the LGA. While thanking the state Chairman for his support, Chief Okirie stated that with the support the President has received from the party in the state, there was even no need for him to come and campaign personally.   “With the tremendous support the people of the state have accorded the President, I think he should go and rest. It is even immaterial if he comes to campaign personally because the people of the state are behind him. We will give him the traditional 100% votes we have alway...
Post a Comment
Read more

DEFECTIONS: Why Saraki, Dogara Others Must Heed Sen. Ibrahim's Call by Comrade Nwokoma Ndubuisi M.

The gale of defections in the National Assembly last week was followed by an advice from no one else than Sen. Abu Ibrahim that the Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki as well as the Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and others in the fold of the All Progressives Congress APC that are still masquerading in the party should resign their membership of the party. This call which also implies that they resign their positions as leaders of the various arms of the National Assembly is yet to be complied with by those concerned as at the time of writing this piece Whatever their reasons for still staying put in the party may be, the fact of the matter is that their continued stay in the party has become a sore which must be extricated from the body.  As I watched through the proceedings of the defections on national television, I wept for the country for producing such leaders that lack morality despite all the party has given them politically which they ordin...
Post a Comment
Read more