PDP Selects Pres. Jonathan as Presidential Candidate For 2015 Elections

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT) members early Thursday morning unanimously adopted President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s sole candidate for the 2015 presidential election.A former Minister of Information and member of the Board, Professor Jerry Gana told state house correspondents that the decision of the BOT was an affirmation of the position of the PDP governors who had earlier taken similar position which they presented to the BOT of the party.The BoT equally approved the timetable and guidelines for the party’s primaries and national convention for the 2015 general elections. Gana, flanked by the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and PDP BoT Secretary, Walid Jibril informed that the endorsement of the president as PDP’s sole candidate for the 2015 presidential race was unanimously done by BoT members with a standing ovation after Chairman of the PDP governor’s forum and Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio briefed them that PDP governors had unanimously endorsed Jonathan as the party’s sole candidate for 2015.