Jonathan’s 2015 Campaign Too Early – Omoruyi

FORMER Director General of the defunct Centre for Democratic Studies, CDS, Prof. Omo Omoruyi, has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to own up that he authorised his campaign posters for 2015 if he was sure that he had evidence of good performance in office so far instead of keeping Nigerians in suspense.

In an interview in Benin, Edo State, Omoruyi said it was not too early for Jonathan to start 2015 re-election campaign because campaign starts with the end of an election.

President Jonathan campaign posters flooded Abuja last week. His aides distanced the president from the posters, reiterating Jonathan’s comments that he would tell Nigerians whether or not he would contest the election in 2014, adding that for now he was concentrating on governance.

The political scientist, who just returned from a medical trip abroad, faulted those who are asking President Jonathan not to re-contest. He also picked holes in the opposition of the North to the Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB,, saying if the North had oil they would have seceded from Nigeria.
Omoruyi spoke as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, gave reasons it could not act on the controversial campaign posters.