Ahead of the Presidential and
general elections slated for March 28 and April 11, Former Federal Commissioner
for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark claimed yesterday
that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and its Presidential candidate,
President Goodluck Jonathan have already won the election.
Speaking yesterday at his Asokoro
residence, Abuja when he received Youth Enlightenment Solution YES led by
Ambassador Paulina Maimekere, Members of the National Association of You Win
Awardee led by its President, Nwaigwe Tonia; Ex- Councillors Association of
Nigeria, among others separately, Chief Clark who drew an analogy of light and
dark, which he symbolises President Jonathan and the Presidential candidate of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd, warned that
Nigeria cannot afford to move from light to darkness.
The Elder Statesman who reiterated
that the APC was a party of corrupt leaders that have nothing good to offer the
nation, described President Jonathan as God sent to Nigeria, even as he
stressed that if re-elected, the country will continue to enjoy peace,
stability, unity and development.
Chief Clark who stressed that no
body can stop President Jonathan from winning the election, as nobody an
intimidate the PDP and Jonathan, vowed that the ruling party will not succumb
to blackmail, adding that no amount of abuses will mean anything to the
President.
According to him, ” we have already
won the election, nobody can stop us, nobody can intimidate us, we shall never
succumb to blackmail. If you re -elect Jonathan as President for second term,
there will continue to be peace, stability and there will be no intimidation.
Jonathan is a man sent by God, humble. No amount of abuses will mean anything
to him.
“He will not take those abusing him
serious. Jonathan is the most abused President by people of bad character.
People saying that Jonathan cannot fight corruption are the most corrupt.
Buhari cannot fight corruption. He said bank borrowed him to buy form, what he
is spending today, is he borrowed by bank also?
“Those funding his campaign are
corrupt and they have cases to answer in court. Let them answer that they are
not corrupt, they cannot. Whoever want to abuse should look at himself first.
“They are not qualify to rule
Nigeria. They lie about, raise uneccessary alarm. Buhari became head of state
through a coup. He stole 2.8m dollars when he was Petroleum Minister. Buhari
was to be probed for the loss of that money. But before the probe will start
Buhari staged a coup. Locked up Shagari, Ekwueme in kirikiri. Every of their
leader is a corrupt person. A corrupt leader cannot probe corrupt members”.
He reiterated that Buhari was
surrounding himself with corrupt people who are having cases to answer.
Earlier the leader of Youth
Enlightenment Solution YES, Ambassador Paulina Maimekere who explained that
they visited Clark to show their solidarity to President Goodluck Jonathan,
stressed that the group has about six million members and that members of the
group would begin an aggressive campaign in all the six geo-political zones for
the re-election of Jonathan.
She said, “Having sat down and
thought of the achievements of President Jonathan, the over six million members
of this group have resolved to support the re-election bid of Jonathan.
“We are going to engage in the last
minute campaign to change whatever deceptive impression the opposition may have
created in the minds of Nigerians.”
Also speaking, the National
Association of You Win Awardee led by its President, Nwaigwe Tonia disclosed
that for three years, 3,900 Nigerians have so far benefited from the You Win
programme by President Jonathan where one million grant and not loan was given,
just as she said that the programme has been able to produce wonderful
entrepreneurs who would replace the likes of Aliko Dangote, others tomorrow.
According to her, their emergence
was as a result of transparency, devoid of godfathers, godmothers, among
others.
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