CHEKWAS OKORIE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION 2015
Press Release
For Immediate Release
UPP CALLS FOR THE ELECTIONS TO BE HELD AS SCHEDULED
CONTACT: Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji
Director General, COPCO
09097353845
ABUJA, NIGERIA; January 26, 2015: The United Progressive Party (UPP) has rejected the call by certain officials in Nigeria to postpone the general elections scheduled in Africa's largest democracy for February 14th and 28th, 2015. In a strategy meeting of the Chekwas Okorie Presidential Campaign Organization, Chief Chekwas Okorie said the election must be held as scheduled. "We have planned our campaign with our resources based on the schedule announced by INEC;" Chief Okorie said, "INEC says they are prepared to proceed, and so are we."
The UPP is the only progressive party that is presenting an authentic progressive for president of Nigeria in the upcoming election. Anchored on the Eastern leg of Nigeria's storied geopolitical balancing organogram, the UPP a national party that has the tiger as its logo, and "Love and Unity" as its motto. The party is eager for the elections to come so that it can demonstrate its salient electoral strength across the nation.
The UPP estimates that conservatively, Nigerians who hail or originate from the Eastern segment of the country constitute 25% of the electorate in each of the 36 states of Nigeria. The party is making a strident appeal to these voters and other Nigerians to trust it with the electoral power to negotiate political power and the ramifications of that power on their behalf at the centre.
The UPP calls on all security agencies in the country to work towards keeping faith with the schedule and protecting the citizens and the country's democracy at the same time. We also call on INEC to ensure that no region or part of the country is placed at an advantage or disadvantage in the process of getting the nation ready for the elections.
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