2015 ELECTIONS: Presidency Campaigning In US

Notwithstanding his constant denial that he has made up his mind to seek re-election in 2015, President Goodluck Jonathan has already kick-started his campaign in the United States.

A major outfit, the Goodluck Jonathan Support Group (GJSG), run by his foot soldiers has berthed in America.

The group’s national coordinator is President Jonathan’s political adviser, Ahmed Ali Gulak, and it is oiled by the chairperson of a federal government agency. GJSG was recently inaugurated in Abuja.

The launch of the US chapter of GJSG by Gulak came three days to the visit of President Jonathan to the country where he had gone to attend the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. But the presidency has denied that it gave its blessing to the move, just as it re-iterated that President Jonathan was focused on providing quality leadership to the country.

Gulak, accompanied by his deputy, Dr Eddy Eniola Olafeso, on Friday launched the US chapter of the Dr (Mrs) Temitope Ajayi-led GJSG at the Millennium Hotel at the United Nations Plaza in New York with a charge to the members of the body to serve as good ambassadors of President Jonathan’s Transformation Agenda.

“We are not telling anybody that we are campaigning for the 2015 re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan; what we are here for is simply to tell Nigerians what the president is doing back home and to charge them to be good ambassadors by propagating the ideals and achievements of the Transformation Agenda,” he said.