CHEKWAS OKORIE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ORGANIZATION 2015
www.chekwasokorieforpresident.org
Press Release
For Immediate Release
SECRETARY KERRY SHOULD HAVE ALSO MET WITH ME
– CHIEF DR. CHEKWAS OKORIE
CONTACT: Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji
Director General, COPCO
09097353845
ABUJA, NIGERIA; January 28, 2015:
The United Progressive Party (UPP) is unhappy with Mr. John Kerry, the United States of America's Secretary of State, for meeting with only the "two sides of the same coin" during his recent visit to Nigeria. Secretary Kerry met on Sunday, January 25, 2015 with Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos, and later met with General Mohammadu Buhari.
"I am not sure what message the distinguished Secretary wanted to send to Nigerians and the world with the meetings, but lending his weight to the notion that there are only two parties or two candidates contesting the 2015 election was not appropriate," said Chief Chekwas Okorie, the presidential candidate of the United Progressive Party (UPP). According to Okorie, the race for president in Nigeria is between him, President Jonathan and General Buhari. "As the representative of a relatively progressive President Obama, it would have been appropriate for Kerry to also meet with the only viable, authentic progressive candidate for president in the 2015 general elections, which is me" Okorie said.
The UPP is the only progressive party that is presenting an authentic progressive for president of Nigeria in the upcoming election scheduled for February 14, 2015. Anchored on the Eastern leg of Nigeria's storied geopolitical balancing beam, the UPP is a national party that has the tiger's head as its logo, and "Love and Unity" as its motto. At least 25% of the electorate in each of the 36 states of Nigeria is comprised of people from the South East, which the UPP considers the anchor of its national constituency.
For more information about this press release, please contact the Director General of the Chekwas Okorie Presidential Campaign Organization.
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