Senate President, David Mark has said that President Goodluck Jonathan remains the only candidate that can move Nigeria forward.
According to the Senate President who made this declaration during the zonal campaign of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Otukpo, Benue State, “Jonathan remains the best that can move the nation forward among the presidential candidates jostling for the coveted seat in the February elections”.
While calling on the people of the zone to keep faith with the ruling PDP, Mark enumerated some achievements of PDP since 1999 in the zone and urged the people to support the party by voting all PDP candidates in the forthcoming elections, saying, “together we shall move Benue forward.”
Also speaking earlier, Governor Gabriel Suswam said that the presidential candidate of All Progressive Congress (APC), General Muhammad Buhari represents Boko Haram and submitted that those who attacked Benue State two years ago “are Boko Haram in the guise of Fulani herdsmen.”
He charged the people of the state to come out en mass and vote massively for all PDP candidates in the forthcoming general elections, as well as President Jonathan, for the growth of the nation.
In his own speech, the Minister of Interior, Honourable Aba Moro, who eulogised the transformation agenda of President Jonathan, which he said had improved the living standard of Nigerians, appealed to the people of the Benue South senatorial district and the people of the state in general to vote for Jonathan