30th August, 2014
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt
Thousands of supporters under the canopy of Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) on Saturday defiled the rain and the outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Port Harcourt to urge President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the presidential election at the Liberation Stadium.
At the rally, speakers included former governor of Rivers state, Dr Peter Odili and former Military Administrator of Akwa Ibom state, Idongesit Ikanga, who is also the leader of South-South elders forum. They had gathered to persuade Jonathan, a son of the South-South zone to declare his interest for the 2015 presidential election.
Odili said the achievements of the president under the Transformation Agenda was legendary and above all is the convocation of the concluded National Conference which concluded with far reaching decisions agreed.
On his part, Nyesom Wike, Minister of State for Education commended TAN for fixing the rally in Port Harcourt in Rivers because if it was not done in the city, the impression would have been that the state was not for the president.
He asked the President not to bother to campaign in Rivers because the state is for Jonathan all the way.
The political rally seized all major television stations that beamed it live to their local and international audiences.
Curiously, Ifeanyi Uba, former governorship candidate of Labour Party in Anambra state was one of the visible organizers who stormed the venue with thousands of his supporters who displayed his posters with President Jonathan.
Mr. John Jonah, deputy governor of Bayelsa state commended TAN for embracing the transformation agenda.
The organisers promised to stage the rally in all the six geo-political zones in Nigeria. They said its only personality that can lead Nigeria out of the woods.
As part of prevention against the outbreak of Ebola disease in the state, organizers of the rally provided hand sanitizers for supporters at all the entry and exit points of the stadium.