1.8 million people from the South-west wants President Goodluck Jonathan for second term.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, said it
had collected signatures of 1.8 million people from
the South-west who wanted President Goodluck
Jonathan to seek re-election come 2015 election.
The number, according to the Secretary to the
Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius
Anyim, was more than the names collected from the
South-east.
He said this while collecting a booklet that contained
the names of the people during the South-west rally
organized by the Transformation Ambassadors of
Nigeria (TAN). which took place at the Obafemi
Awolowo Stadium in Ibadan, yesterday.
The rally was organised by several chieftains of the
PDP from the South-west states, viz: Lagos, Ogun,
Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo States.
In attendance at the event were the Chief of Staff to
the President, Jones Arogbofa; Chief Bode George;
Oloye Jumoke Akinjide, Minister of State, FCT,
Minister of Police affairs, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan,
Kingsley Kuku, Special Adviser to the President on
Niger Delta Affairs; Prince Buruji Kashamu, PDP
South-west leader; Senator Iyiola Omisore; Otunba
Adebayo-Alao-Akala, former Governor of Oyo
State; former Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon. Dimeji Bankole; and Engr.
Seyi Makinde, PDP governorship aspirant; Mr.
Ganiyu Olaoluwa; Yinka Taiwo; Captain Kuji Sele;
Ebenezer Alabi and Engr. Bayo Dayo, PDP state
chairmen from Osun, Oyo, Lagos, Ondo and Ogun
States respectively.
Arogbofa, while calling on people of the zone to join
hands to give PDP resounding victory during the
2015 elections, said, “I want to call on my people to
let’s work with unity of purpose and I can assure all
of us that if we work together, the reward will be
superlative. We worked for Mr. President in 2011
and we all can see that there’s no regret and this
time around, we will not regret but have more and
better reward”.
Oloye Akinjide, in her remark, said anybody saying
anything contrary was only deceiving him.
According to her, the people of the zone would vote
massively for President Jonathan come 2015 in
order for the zone to have more dividends of
democracy”.