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[size=14pt]Nigeria’s Labor Party Backs Jonathan in Presidential Vote (1)[/size]
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By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo

[size=14pt]April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria’s opposition Labor Party said it will support President Goodluck Jonathan, the candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, in the April 16 presidential vote.

Jonathan “is the most qualified candidate,” Dan Nwanyanwu, national chairman of the Labor Party, told reporters today in the capital, Abuja. The party, which won 11 seats in last week’s parliamentary election, will not field a candidate for the presidential vote, he said.[/size]

Eighteen candidates will challenge Jonathan in this week’s poll, including Muhammadu Buhari, a northern Muslim and former military ruler who is representing the Congress for Progressive Change. Nuhu Ribadu, the former head of the country’s anti- corruption agency, is standing as a candidate for the Action Congress of Nigeria.

The All Progressive Grand Alliance Party, Nigeria’s third- biggest opposition group, will also back Jonathan in the vote, Chairman Victor Umeh, said on Feb. 11.

Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation and the continent’s biggest oil producer.

To contact the reporter on this story: Elisha Bala-Gbogbo in Abuja at ebalagbogbo@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Dulue Mbachu at dmbachu@bloomberg.net

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Lagosboy:

If GEJ wins Lagos then 51% of Lagosians must stand for retrogression. As a lagosian I know we are progressives and always stand for progress, we have never voted for the wrong choice, never voted PDP into power and will never vote PDP. GEJ or JEG or JEGA whatver name he is.

Jarus:

If PDP wins CPC in presidential in Kano, I'll resign as NL mod.

sbeezy8:

i dont think any sensible person expected otherwise

Jarus:

If PDP wins CPC in presidential in Kano, I'll resign as NL mod.

efisher:

^ Jarus wants to go down with Buhari!!! 

@ Topic, I will not be surprised if GEJ wins in all the states. All the other candidates have either given up hope, stepped down or backed him!

This feat may end up in the Guiness book of records with GEJ as the first virtually un-opposed democratically elected President ever!

paddy_lo:

^^

The plot thickens u CPC numskulls. . do u see ONDO state in my list at number 13 sucker?. .

look very clearly. . and picture what am trying to tell u. .

am actually beginning to feel sorry for Buhari. . not. . ha ha ha ha ha

What will actually happen if GEJ wins or is it just that he will win? This is just like Super Eagles winning a match, after the celebration all of us will go back to our miserable lives with no jobs, no admissions, no electricity, and no security. We will all continue to take risks to get out this hell called Nigeria crossing the Sahara desert on foot and swimming the Meditation Sea just to end our suffering, while the true winners of the event enjoy their winnings and loot.

Lagosboy:

Somebody sits down and concoct vicotry polls out if his imagination.

If GEJ wins Lagos then 51% of Lagosians must stand for retrogression. As a lagosian I know we are progressives and always stand for progress, we have never voted for the wrong choice, never voted PDP into power and will never vote PDP. GEJ or JEG or JEGA whatver name he is.