2015: WE’VE COLLECTED 20 MILLION SIGNATURES FOR JONATHAN —TAN

Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) said on Friday that it had collected more than 20 million signatures endorsing the candidacy of President Goodluck Jonathan for 2015 election.
TAN’s Director of Communication and Strategy, Dr. Udenta O Udenta, announced this on Friday during a chat with journalists in Abuja.
Udenta said that the group was committed to the realisation of President Jonathan’s second term ambition, adding that more signatures would be collected from the North West states at the rally today.
He also announced the postponement of the group’s grand finale rally in Abuja which was scheduled to hold on September 30 to a later date.
Udenta, who claimed that the group was being funded by private individuals, insisted that no government funds is linked to the group.
According to him, the group has only borrowed from the practices in the Western world, especially the United States of America, where groups to raise funds for their candidates.
He stated that the group had not broken any electoral law as it was only sensitising Nigerians at home and abroad to the good works done by Jonathan.
He stated that no group had ever done what TAN had done by sensitising Nigerians about the achievements of a president.
He also said that TAN had refrained from attacking or antagonising anybody, adding that the group was happy that the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has now endorsed the President.
According to him, TAN is following the footsteps of the different hierarchies of the PDP to endorse Jonathan.
While speaking on the various plans by the group, Udenta said that TAN would soon diversify into waste collection tagged ‘Waste to Wealth’, which he said would ensure that Nigerians are paid for submitting their refuse to a recycling company.
He said that the ‘Waste to Wealth’ programme would provide over one million jobs in the next four years.
Source: Tribune