…says rally was a failed damage control
The Enugu Rescue Group, ERG, has slammed Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State on the statement describing PDP members who were not at the Enugu rally as being opposed President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s reelection.
The pressure group was reacting to the statement by the Governor who, while addressing the rally organised by the Enugu State Movement for Re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in Enugu today, said that “whoever is not here could not be said to be supporting President Jonathan”.
In a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Comrade Martin Okenwa, ERG said the Governor was notorious for his anti-Jonathan tendencies and described the Enugu rally as ‘a dmage control from the backlash of the non-support and participation in the Transformation Ambassadors Nigeria (TAN) South East rally in Awka, Anamabra State.
The statement read in part: “Governor Chime’s comment is an irony because from he turbulent days of the struggle for the emergence of President Jonathan as the Acting President to the successful efforts spearheaded by TAN to have the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, adopt Mr. President as its sole candidate, boTH the Enugu State Government and the Governor are renown for their opposition and hide-and-seek gameS.
“Not only was Sullivan Chime the only South East PDP Governor who refused to collect the TAN registers to mobilise signatures in support of the President, it is a public knowledge that the Governor took the entire State Executive Council and all the Local Government Council Chairmen to a birthday party in Umuahia on the day of the rally attended by all the other PDP South East Governors.
“The Enugu rally was therefore a belated damage control and futile attempt to key himself into the Jonathan 2015 reelection haven seen that Jothan had carried the day with his adoption by the PDP as its sole presidential candidate.
“We see Chime’s comment as an attack on the Deputy President, Senator ike Ekweremadu, the same man that moved the important motion and authored the Doctrine of Necessity both of which snowballed into the Jonathan presidency at a time the Governor was hobnobbing with anti-Jonathan forces”.
