I Am Ready For Any Opponent Says President Goodluck Jonathan

Ahead of 2015 Presidential election, President Goodluck Jonathan who is the sole Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP was ready for keen contest with whoever emerges as the presidential candidates of the All Progressives Congress, APC and other opposition political parties.

Speaking in Abuja, the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Professor Rufai Ahmed Alkali who explained that the President has been preparing well ahead of the 2015 Presidential election, stressed that the endorsement of the President by the organs of PDP was designed to strengthen democracy, contrary to impression by the opposition.

Alkali who was reacting to barrage of criticisms that have trailed the President’s adoption last week by the National Executive Committee, NEC; Board of Trustees, BoT; the National Assembly and the governors, said that the adoption has also not closed the contest for the 2015 Presidential election by other political parties, adding that what the PDP did was to affirm its maturity in political game based on its rich experience of being in power for the past 16 years and had thus succeeded in obviating internal wrangling that usually trail internal electioneering among members.