Jonathan is not an Ijaw President, PDP to Tompolo, Asari

Peoples Democratic Party has warned some ex-militants who have been
threatening violence if President Goodluck Jonathan loses the February
14 presidential election to desist from such act.
The party warned them to realise that the President remains the
President of all Nigerians irrespective of their tribe, region and
religious believe.
National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated
this in an interview with selected group of journalists in Abuja on
Friday.
Metuh was reacting to the statements credited to some ex-militants
that there would be war, or that the country would break, if Jonathan
loses the election.
Among those who have made such threats were former leaders of Movement
for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, Mr. Government Ekpemupolo
(Tompolo) and the Leader of the Niger Delta Peoples' Volunteer Force,
Mr. Dokubo Asari.
But Metuh said such comments by the party's supporters must be
stopped, warning that the President, who is an Ijaw man like these
ex-militants, must not be labelled as the President of Ijaw.
The spokesperson for the ruling party was asked why the party had
remained silent over the statements which had attracted condemnation
from opposition political parties and eminent Nigerians.
Such eminent Nigerians included a former Minister of Defence, Lt.-Gen.
Theophilus Danjuma(retd.), who asked the security agencies to arrest
the ex-militants without delay.
Speaking on the position of the party, Metuh said, "We are not in
agreement with their statements and we are cautioning them to mind
what they say.
"No individual own the party. The President could be more loved in
Anambra than Ijaw area, he could have support in Adamawa than in
Bayelsa. He even said in Adamawa State that he had more votes from
there in 2011 than his home state of Bayelsa.
"Jonathan is not the President of Ijaw or South-South. He should not
be reduced to just the President of Ijaw alone. He is the president of
the whole country."
He also called on those campaigning for the party and the President to
be decent in their languages, saying that those who founded the party
were men of honour.
Metuh said, "While we have noted the zeal of individuals of people
supporting the president with advertorials and rallies, they should be
guided with the ideals of the people who founded the party.
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"We respect the sanctity and privacy of individuals. We won't trade
words with issues that are private.
"Support groups and individuals must be guided with this. We want
issue-based campaigns. Those showing support for us should be guided
by issues and not insults. That's what we want the campaigns to be."
On the pelting of the President with stones and sachet of pure water
in some northern states, Metuh said that that should not be used as a
sign of rejection of the PDP presidential candidate.
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