The Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Iheanacho Chime, has
declared tomorrow, work-free for a grand rally being organized by the
Enugu State Movement for the re-election of President Jonathan (EMJ)
scheduled to hold at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, Enugu.Chime enjoined
civil servants, schools, banks and other corporate institutions to
observe the public holiday and take part in the grand rally intended to
drum support for President Jonathan and mount further pressures on him
to formally declare for the 2015 presidential election.
This is coming as another grand intra-party plot by some persons
loyal to a top National Assembly member to scuttle the rally thickens.
To actualise the plan, a meeting of Transformation Ambassadors of
Nigeria (TAN), Enugu State chapter has been called for today in all the
wards. This is a follow-up from the meeting TAN had at the senatorial
districts last Saturday.
The plot is to invite all the ward coordinators to the state capital to collect money from an aide of the federal lawmaker for onward distribution to members tomorrow. It was learnt that “the event is so carefully designed to coincide with the rally for Jonathan so that most members of TAN who are also members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in anticipation of the money from their ward coordinators, will be forced to stay back in their wards and not travel to Enugu for the EMJ rally.”
It was, however, gathered that Chime is leaving no stone unturned to make the rally a huge success: “In 2011, Mr. President had a landslide victory in Enugu State. We will surpass that feat in the 2015 presidential elections. That’s why we’re organizing this rally to ask Mr. President to declare his interest without wasting further time.”
The government involved prominent citizens of the state as either patrons or promoters of the rally. Former Senate President Ken Nnamani is the grand patron with Chime and other ex-governors of both old Anambra and old Enugu states who are indigenes of the state as patrons. They include Senator Jim Nwobodo, Admiral Allison Madueke (rtd) and Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.
The promoters are Prof. Chinedu Nebo, Minister of Power, the three senators from the state as well as Mrs. Fidelia Njeze, the special adviser on NEPAD to Jonathan, Senators Ben-Collins Ndu and Dubem Onyia. Vice-President Namadi Sambo will represent the President at the rally to be preceded by the commissioning of the Heliport built by the state government for the Nigeria Police.
It was also gathered that plans are underway by some state PDP chieftains to challenge the validity of the position of Vita Abba as the authentic party chairman. According to our source, “we have it on good authority that some of our brothers in Abuja have been searching for who to do the hatchet job.
“Their plan is to make some spurious claims before the court about how Abba was not properly elected. The court is then expected to uphold their prayer by nullifying Abba’s election.”
The single reason for this renewed onslaught, it was learnt, is “a fallout of the last meeting of the party in Abuja where it was decided that the state chairmen of the party would supervise the election of the three-man delegates from each ward who will elect candidates for various seats in the forthcoming primaries.
“They made an attempt to scuttle this arrangement during the meeting in Abuja,” said our source. “But they were told in clear terms that it’s the chairmen that would supervise the process. So, their new game-plan is to have their own chairman through the back door so that he will do their bidding.”
The plot is to invite all the ward coordinators to the state capital to collect money from an aide of the federal lawmaker for onward distribution to members tomorrow. It was learnt that “the event is so carefully designed to coincide with the rally for Jonathan so that most members of TAN who are also members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in anticipation of the money from their ward coordinators, will be forced to stay back in their wards and not travel to Enugu for the EMJ rally.”
It was, however, gathered that Chime is leaving no stone unturned to make the rally a huge success: “In 2011, Mr. President had a landslide victory in Enugu State. We will surpass that feat in the 2015 presidential elections. That’s why we’re organizing this rally to ask Mr. President to declare his interest without wasting further time.”
The government involved prominent citizens of the state as either patrons or promoters of the rally. Former Senate President Ken Nnamani is the grand patron with Chime and other ex-governors of both old Anambra and old Enugu states who are indigenes of the state as patrons. They include Senator Jim Nwobodo, Admiral Allison Madueke (rtd) and Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo.
The promoters are Prof. Chinedu Nebo, Minister of Power, the three senators from the state as well as Mrs. Fidelia Njeze, the special adviser on NEPAD to Jonathan, Senators Ben-Collins Ndu and Dubem Onyia. Vice-President Namadi Sambo will represent the President at the rally to be preceded by the commissioning of the Heliport built by the state government for the Nigeria Police.
It was also gathered that plans are underway by some state PDP chieftains to challenge the validity of the position of Vita Abba as the authentic party chairman. According to our source, “we have it on good authority that some of our brothers in Abuja have been searching for who to do the hatchet job.
“Their plan is to make some spurious claims before the court about how Abba was not properly elected. The court is then expected to uphold their prayer by nullifying Abba’s election.”
The single reason for this renewed onslaught, it was learnt, is “a fallout of the last meeting of the party in Abuja where it was decided that the state chairmen of the party would supervise the election of the three-man delegates from each ward who will elect candidates for various seats in the forthcoming primaries.
“They made an attempt to scuttle this arrangement during the meeting in Abuja,” said our source. “But they were told in clear terms that it’s the chairmen that would supervise the process. So, their new game-plan is to have their own chairman through the back door so that he will do their bidding.”
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