night, resolved that President Goodluck Jonathan be the sole unopposed
candidate of the party in the 2015 presidential election.
Briefing State House correspondents after the meeting of the board, a
member, Professor Jerry Gana said that by that resolution no governor
elected under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party is allowed
to contest for the office of the president against Goodluck Jonathan.
Professor Gana, who was joined by the Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu and the BOT Secretary, Walid Jubril at the briefing, said
the resolution was unanimously agreed to by the governors, adding that
the BOT endorsed the decision.
They said the resolution is born out of their conviction that
President Goodluck Jonathan has done an excellent job in his first
term and should be allowed to contest for a second term unopposed.
President Jonathan, who was elected into the office in 2011, was
formerly the Vice President to late President Musa Yar'Adua.
Although he is yet to officially declare his ambition to run for a
second term, thousands of supporters have been campaigning all over
the country.
More than 7,000 groups across the country are said to be calling on
him to run for the 2015 general election.
However, according to the President's Special Adviser on Political
Matters, Prof. Rufai Alkali, there is pressure on the president to
declare his presidential ambition but the president is not in a hurry
to do so.
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