Labour Party May Endorse Jonathan for 2015 Election

Jaiyeola Andrews

The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Chief  Dan Nwanyanwu, has disclosed that the party will again support President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015  presidential election if no candidate meets its requirement to fly the flag of the party.

Nwanyanwu said any aspirant seeking to run on the party’s platform must have the requisite qualification to run and to be able prosecute the election.

Speaking yesterday during the courtesy visit by the organisers of Democracy Nigeria Beauty Pageant to his office in Abuja, Nwanyanwu said the LP had no problem with queuing behind any presidential aspirant with those qualities.

The LP chairman said in 2015, the party will be looking for Nigerians who will take advantage of its manifesto and run, adding that: “LP cannot create presidential candidates.”

The party chairman who led the party to support President Jonathan in the last election in 2011, however said: “Our support for Jonathan will continue until the end of tenure because you cannot create something and destroy it. And that is why we have been part and parcel of making of President Jonathan.

“LP will continue to encourage him until his tenure expires. If we have a presidential candidate, we will give it a shot, if we don’t have, the party will decide what next to do.”
He said the adoption of President Jonathan in 2011 by the LP was because it did not have a presidential candidate and the members agreed that they have to be part and parcel of the making of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“And while we are looking at this, the president himself contacted the party for support. He gave an appointment of which we attended the meeting and gave our nine point agenda from education to security, to unemployment, among others.



“So, the NEC endorsed that support and that support was based on the fact the president humbled himself to contact us for support and he was the only one who came and we considered him and endorsed him.”