2015: Presidency Has Secret Campaign Structure – S’West PDP Officials

| OLAOLU OLADIPO

Members of the South West caucus of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are grumbling over their alleged marginalisation by the Federal Government.
They have also alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan operates an alternative campaign structure to actualise his purported 2015 re-election bid.
Officials of the party in the zone, who spoke to LEADERSHIP Sunday in Lagos on condition of anonymity, lamented that the federal government had not done enough to mitigate the sense of loss of the party in the area to the rival Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
Party sources in the South west claimed that Jonathan had gone ahead to erect new campaign structures in the zone as a way of securing victory for him, should former President OlusegunObasanjo make real his decision to dump him ahead of the 2015 election.
Some leaders of the PDP in Lagos State said the Presidency through its proxies had been funding an amorphous caucus within the party to achieve the aim. They could not immediately confirm if such structure also exists in other states in the zone.
The caucus composed mainly of party members, who though based in Lagos, are from the South South and the South East geo-political zones of the country.  The members are expected to form the nucleus of his campaign in 2015.
“We are aware of the existence of a South South caucus within the PDP but what I can say is that they are party members who have been given the right and privilege of assemblage by the constitution,” a party official said.
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