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Jonathan will contest in 2015 – Clark



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South-South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Friday said another four years for President Goodluck Jonathan will not bring down the country.
Clark, who confirmed the President’s desire to go for re-election in 2015, said “Jonathan merited the second term because of the enormous work he had done and nobody can stop him.”
The one time federal commissioner who spoke in Abuja while playing host to a delegation of Northern Women in Politics under the aegis of “Northern Women Mass Movement for President Jonathan 2015 ambition,” posited that it is the tradition for sitting presidents to seek second term.
He said, “Jonathan will contest in 2015 because of two things; one, he is qualified to do so under the law and secondly, he has performed well to the extent that those who voted him in 2011 are willing to do so again.
“Nobody has a right to stop him from contesting. All the presidents who had ruled this nation spent two terms. We voted for Alhaji Shehu Shagari as President in 1979 and 1983 respectively.
“Everybody in this country is created equal, no matter the tribe, gender or background as long as such person is a Nigerian and educated.”
Clark, who also spoke on the abducted Chibok school girls assured the northern women that the girls will come back to join other women to build the nation.
“If President has used force to free the girls, some of them would have died and the same people will still shout that Jonathan has killed our girls.
“Those girls will come back to join us and build the nation,” the Ijaw leader stated.

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