Bayelsa Poll: We don’t have anything against Jonathan

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says it has nothing against
former President Goodluck Jonathan over the just concluded Bayelsa
governorship election.

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan disclosed
this in an interview with newsmen on Wednesday after a meeting of
the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja.

There were reports in the media that Jonathan may be sanctioned
by the party following the defeat of PDP by All Progressives
Congress (APC), at the Nov.16, governorship election in
Bayelsa.

Ologbondiyan said that the issue of Jonathan was not part of
matters discussed at the NWC meeting.

“The issue of former President Goodluck Jonathan did not come up
at the meeting and it was not discussed.

“You must know about the procedure and processes in our party.
If we do not have a report or an issue before us, we cannot delve
into.

“As we speak now, we do not have any matter concerning Jonathan
before us in the party,” he said.

Ologbondiyan said that the only issue discussed at the meeting
was the Nov. 16 election in Kogi and Bayelsa, of which the National
Chairman, Mr Uche Secondus would formally address the press on the
party’s position on Thursday.

“We have taken a decision to go to court long before but beyond
that, we are going to take other measures which the national
chairman will disclose on Thursday.

“We have not done a post mortem of the election. We have only
weighed the circumstances that surrounded the election.

“We have also looked at the global condemnation of the election.
We have reviewed the role of INEC and the role played by security
agencies. Formally, the party will come up with a position,” he
said.

He, however, denied insinuation that Secondus was under
pressure, saying the party was rather concern about the state of
democracy in the country.

“We believe that as the main opposition party we have a
responsibility to salvage democracy,” he said.

Ologbondiyan also said that there was no division within the
NWC.

“All of us are here. Virtually everybody was here and we
discussed freely,” he said.(NAN)

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