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Group tasks Jonathan on electoral reforms

By Festus Ahon
UGHELLI—THE New Delta Political Movement, has charged President Goodluck Jonathan to complete the electoral reforms with all vigour with the view to bringing sanity to the country’s electoral system. It enjoined Nigerians, particularly Deltans to embrace the campaign of one man, one vote.

Briefing newsmen after a meeting of the group held in Oleh, Delta State, yesterday, chairman of the group, Chief Godwin Okene said the group believes in the campaign, expressing hope that if adopted, “the one man one vote campaign will restore sanity into the electoral system in Nigeria.”

He said the group was ready to collaborate with other groups in Delta State that have the same ideology,  adding that the group was poised to check electoral fraud in the state.

Saying that the group would launch the campaign in all the 25 local government areas in the state to enlighten Deltans on how they could protect their votes and ensure that the one man one vote campaign was adhered to in the 2011 elections, he enjoined Deltans to vote for a candidate that would be able to deliver the dividends of democracy to them.

Okene said the group has confidence in the new PDP reform forum and urged the people of the state to give President Goodluck Jonathan the needed support to move the country forward. He said Nigerians would forever remember President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.