Thousands of youths under the banner of the Imo Grassroots for Goodluck Jonathan Organisation (IGGO), yesterday staged a solidarity march along major streets of Owerri, the Imo State capital, in support of the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 election.
The youths, who moved from Egbu Road through Wetheral Road, burnt brooms, the symbol of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in front of the Imo state government house, declaring the party dead in the State and thereafter, marched to the state secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, along Okigwe Road. where they declared total support for the re-election of President Jonathan 2015.
Speaking on behalf of the youths before the state executive of the PDP, the national Coordinator of IGGO, Samuel Otuibe, said they carried out the rally as a way of continuing their sensitization of the Imo populace to support the re-election of President Jonathan in 2015.
According to him, President Jonathan has done a lot for Imo State and South East in general especially in the areas of education, youth empowerment, agriculture and other salient areas.
He lamented that most of the projects done by the federal government in all the tertiary institutions in the state were being claimed and credited to the APC-led government in Imo State. Otuibe used the opportunity to commend the PDP for hearkening to the voice of the group by giving him the party’s presidential ticket to continue in office for a second term in 2015.
“We held a similar rally in February this year when we called on the PDP and Nigerians to allow President Jonathan to continue his transformation of Nigeria.
The party listened to us and we are also here to thank you for hearkening to our prayer”, he said adding that by giving Jonathan a second term ticket, the PDP had only shown that all Nigerians have opportunity to aspire to the highest office in the land.
