Dear compatriots:
VOTE YOUR HOPES, NOT YOUR FEARS
Chief Chekwas Okorie and the United Progressive Party (UPP) entered the 2015 campaign for president and other positions as the youngest party in the races. Extricating the progressive soul of a betrayed APGA and planting it within the UPP that is now only two years old, Okorie set out to restore the third missing leg of the tripod that has kept Nigeria together since 1960. The head of the tiger is the UPP's symbol.
Yet as the new catalyst in the game, the UPP has shot up to become the third most consequential political party in Nigeria out of over 25, with Chekwas Okorie running a significant third behind President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP and General Mohammadu Buhari of the APC. We believe that as Nigerians ponder their choices today and tomorrow, they should choose neither the flood nor the dry wilderness, but the "love and unity" that the UPP represents.
Throughout this campaign, we have maintained the purity of our virgin party, unstained by the infusion of corrupt, stolen blood money. More importantly, we have preserved our independence as a party, rejecting lucrative offers to do otherwise.
This purity and independence have allowed us to call it, in every issue, as we see it, with the interest of the beleaguered majority of Nigerians in mind. Ours has been a politics devoid of rancor, without the demonization of our competitors, who after all, are our compatriots. In so doing we believe we have moved the conservative Buhari and Jonathan towards a progressive middle where we assert most Nigerians are.
And because of our efforts and the convergence of the UPP, PDP and APC around the middle, we believe that this will be the closest election in Nigeria's history. This is indeed a good thing because it will necessitate the formation of a unifying national government after the election, and not the chaos many predict and expect. We shall overcome!
We invite Nigerians to go out with courage and conviction on Saturday and vote like their lives and the future of their children are at stake. We ask them to vote their hopes and not their fears.
God bless Nigeria and Nigerians!
Dr. Ugorji Okechukwu Ugorji
Director General
Chekwas Okorie Presidential Campaign Organization (COPCO)
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