Afrigather Supporters of former President Goodluck Jonathan have commenced grassroots mobilisation within the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones for the presidential candidate of All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
The group, underneath the aegis of Residents Community for Peace and Growth in Nigeria, had earlier endorsed Tinubu in November.
In a press release issued after the grassroots marketing campaign graduation in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, the nationwide secretary of the coalition, Francis Wainwei, disclosed that they had been in opposition to the thought of getting one other northerner to exchange the President, Main Common Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) after eight years.
Wainwei, whose group made a money donation of N1 million to assist Tinubu’s marketing campaign within the two geopolitical zones, vowed to do every little thing to make sure the following president emerged from the South.
The CNPDN was among the many few coalitions that overtly pushed for Jonathan to contest for the presidential ticket on the platform of the APC earlier this 12 months.
Jonathan, who promised to seek the advice of broadly within the build-up, reneged on the final minute, paving the way in which for Tinubu to clinch the get together ticket.
However Wainwei, an indigene of Bayelsa State, instructed newsmen on Monday that their supporters had unanimously resolved to assist Tinubu within the 2023 presidential election.
In keeping with him, the group’s major purpose for throwing their weight behind a southern presidential candidate was to advertise nationwide unity, fairness, equity and justice.
The assertion learn, “Our place that the following president of this nation ought to come from the South is pushed by similar imaginative and prescient and rules. We consider strongly that such will strengthen the unity and peace of the nation. It can give a greater sense of belonging to the individuals of southern Nigeria and foster a extra viable peaceable co-existence amongst Nigerians.
“We had been stunned by the betrayal of the identical trigger by among the southern governors, particularly the South-South governors, besides Nyesom Wike, who had earlier declared for a southern President, to desert similar and began pursuing their private pursuits as an alternative of the collective curiosity of the area.
“We subsequently name on the South-South governors who’ve betrayed their individuals by supporting one other northern candidate to take over from Buhari after eight years of a president from the North, to resign instantly.
“It is because the individuals of the South-South zone can not belief them with their frequent heritage as they’ve positioned their private pursuits above the collective curiosity of their individuals.
“Our name on them to resign can also be premised on the truth that they lately acquired large sums of cash by way of the 13 per cent derivation fund and squandered similar in pursuit of their private pursuits on the expense of their individuals.
“We’re additionally calling on the South-South states’ Homes of Meeting to question the mentioned governors in the event that they fail to resign as requested. We will mobilise our members throughout the South-South States to pressure the mentioned governors to resign or get impeached.
“We are able to’t enable such egocentric governors to proceed to manipulate us anymore. We should all place the collective curiosity of our individuals above our private pursuits for our area to expertise holistic and accelerated growth.”
“Tinubu is the best means to electing a President from southern extraction in 2023. He has nationwide acceptance and has the requisite political expertise to navigate Nigeria to greatness as president of Nigeria.”
