{"id":30286,"date":"2014-08-17T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30286"},"modified":"2014-08-17T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:10:57","slug":"run-2015-nigerian-women-urge-jonathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/run-2015-nigerian-women-urge-jonathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Run in 2015, Nigerian women Urge Jonathan:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nigerian women under the aegis of the group Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The group, led by a former Minister of Women Affairs and member of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Iyom Josephine Anenih, made the call at the weekend in Awka, during the group&#8217;s south-east\u00a0 rally.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mrs Anenih urged PDP not to infringe on Jonathan\u2019s right to an automatic ticket as a sitting President,\u00a0 reminding that sitting presidents in all advanced democracies enjoy such privilege.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The former minister said Jonathan had empowered Nigerian women like no other president, assuring that women would lend the president overwhelming support.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She said, &#8220;This his is not a PDP rally and I am not here because of PDP. \u00a0In fact, if this was a PDP rally, I probably would not have come because the party has let me down too many times.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSo you might ask why I am here. I am here on this platform as a Nigerian Woman Leader. \u00a0I am here to tell you that President Goodluck Jonathan has kept faith with Nigerian women by empowering them in a way that no other President has ever done.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The woman leader listed YouWin\u00a0programme, appointment of almost 35% women in Ministries, Departments and Agencies MDAs as strategies through which Jonathan has empowered several women.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cPresident Jonathan nominated 92 women to the just concluded National Conference, including a 24-year old woman and a blind woman.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWith the challenges facing us as a country we cannot afford to play politics with the destiny of our people. This is no time for selfish politics of personal interest. Our definition of politics must change.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cFour months to election year, we cannot be guessing who will lead the battle to face the challenges confronting us.\u00a0 Today\u00a0we have Boko Haram, terrorism, insurgency and, now, Ebola. This is no time to try a new hand. This is the time to stick with who you know- who can deliver and has delivered\u201d, declared Anenih.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">She continued: \u201cFour months to election year, we have not seen any other candidate we can x-ray or assess. It is, indeed, irresponsible and utter disregard of the electorate (by any party) to sell your candidate in less than four years. \u00a0You need four years and not four months to sell any candidate.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe need someone that cares and feels our pains.\u00a0We have had four years to assess Dr Goodluck Jonathan and we are telling you he has passed the test. \u00a0We know Jonathan; so we should go with him,&#8221; submitted the former minister, stressing,\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;he has not let us down&#8221;.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe got Nigerian women to massively vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.\u00a0 This President is the Women&#8217;s President. \u00a0The mandate he has\u00a0today\u00a0is the mandate we gave him.\u00a0\u00a0 It is because it is our mandate and because he is our representative,\u00a0today, that Nigerian women are giving the President an ULTIMATUM.\u00a0<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Nigerian women can give their President an ultimatum.\u00a0 We are giving the President an ULTIMATUM: You must run!&#8221; she declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian women under the aegis of the group Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015.The group, led by a former Minister of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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