By Vincent Ujumadu
THE Congress for Democratic Change, CDC, is to field about 120 candidates for the National Assembly in this year’s election.

The candidates emerged from primaries conducted by the party across the country.

National chairman of CDC, Chief Edozie Madu, said in Awka that though the party was one of the youngest in the country, its membership had spread, adding that it showed that Nigerians had accepted its programmes.

According to him, candidates of the party will contest election in all the six geo-political zones, while the party would campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan.

He observed that while some of the so-called big parties were engulfed in crisis and manipulating their primaries, CDC conducted transparent primaries after its congresses at the ward, local government and state levels.

Former Anambra State chairman of the party, Lady Virginia Chukwuogor, who won a ticket to contest for a seat in Anambra State House of Assembly, said CDC was not scared of any political party because it was well organized and popular in many states.

He said: “CDC is seriously making inroads in all parts of the country and that is what matters to us.”

Chukwuogor commended the leadership of the party for making her the first female state chairman of a political party and selecting her to carry the party’s flag for Awka 1 constituency in the forthcoming election.

She said she would mobilize all women to register during the forthcoming voters’ registration, so they could vote for candidates of their choice, reminding the people that the era of writing results in a room was over.