WHY NORTH WILL VOTE FOR JONATHAN, BY YAKASSAI

Chairman of the Northern Elders Council (NEC), Tanko Yakassai, on Wednesday, said the Northern region would overwhelmingly vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the forthcoming presidential election scheduled to hold on February 14, 2015.
He made the remark at the media presentation of ‘Candidate Goodluck Jonathan’, an event organised to showcase the achievements of the President organised by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, and his team.
Yakassai, who listed some of the giant strides of Jonathan, also commended the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for giving the President a return ticket to fly the party’s flag in the presidential election.
He also commended the President for retaining Vice President Namadi Sambo despite intense pressures from many quarters that he should be dropped.
“I am happy to know that President Goodluck Jonathan was endorsed by his party, the PDP, as its presidential candidate. I also want to congratulate his party, the PDP, for introducing the method of right of first refusal to Nigeria and I hope other political parties will adopt this measure to prevent any form of rancour in political parties.
This is the type of politics that we are looking for in this country, politics of ideas and programme”.
Also speaking on the Boko Haram issue and the government’s efforts to successfully tackle insurgency in the country, he said the claim in some quarters that Boko Haram was created by some elements to destabilise Jonathan’s administration.
Source: Daily Independent