APGA to PDP: Don’t take our support for Jonathan for granted

All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has warned Peoples’ Democratic Party,PDP members not

to take their endorsement and campaigns for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office, for granted.

APGA which gave the warning through its national publicity secretary, Okwukwe Ibiam in Aba, Abia state

while addressing journalists said that common sense would have prevailed on the PDP especially in the South East that APGA’s goodwill and co option of the PDP presidential candidate would have engendered a co-operative, co­ordinated APGA and PDP campaign on behalf of the Presidency on APGA’s turf.

Ibiam regretted that what APGA has received in return rather, was what it called a cold, distant and under-­handed effort by the PDP presidential campaign team especially in the South east to benignly use the APGA endorsement of President Jonathan to undermine APGA candidates across the South east.

“Instead of appreciating our efforts, we are witnessing a cold, distant and underhanded effort by the PDP

presidential campaign team especially in the South east, to benignly use the APGA endorsement of President

Jonathan to the APGA electorate, to undermine APGA candidates across the South east, usurping our endorsements to possibly write­in, or rig in other PDP candidates to power”.

APGA warns further that any attempt to reenact the Alliance for Democracy (AD) endorsement of former president Olusegun Obasanjo in the South west in 2003 which it said translated into rousing victory for the PDP, even when the South west then did not vote for PDP and their candidates, would be stiffy resisted. Ibiam condemned the actions of the former governor of Anambra State and the deputy campaign director of the presidential team who he accused of trying to ride on APGA’s popular tail to swing victory to PDP in local elections in the South east besides the presidency, saying

that such moves would fail.

“APGA will alert President Jonathan that his reasoning to position Peter Obi as deputy campaign director

of the presidential campaign Council, though well intentioned, may hurt the South east campaign in the long run, as the PDP has no campaign apparatus independent, or in conjunction in the South east and has not made attempts till date to build any.

We warn that Peter Obi is not the face of the South East, nor does he have structures to deliver the

votes in the South east.”

The APGA national publicity secretary emphasized that his party’s stand on the elections was well known “to

vote for APGA candidates in all the state and Federal elections, and Jonathan for president. We warn the PDP not to take APGA’s strategy and  vote for granted”