By ANAYO OKOLI
Senator Annie Okonkwo, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, return ticket holder from Anambra Central senatorial district, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory at the party’s primaries held at Eagles Square, Abuja, now made his mandate the sacred totem for a unified PDP.

According to him, Jonathan, having gone through the weary but transparent primaries, his emergence is now the consecrated mandate of all PDP members and stakeholders in totality.

Sen. Okonkwo, who spoke through his Special Assistant, Media, Mr. Collins Ugwu, noted that “the moral significance of a fair contest is the binding value of legitimacy it confers on the winner.”  He added that now that a winner had emerged, this phase of the contest in PDP should be considered overcame and closed.

He called on every PDP member, high or low, disappointed or celebrating, to rally up to “this special mandate, we have all sacrificially conferred on the person of President Goodluck Jonathan.

“We should defend it so that God willing, we will consummate it come May 29, 2011.

Reacting to the court injunction against Chairman of PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, Okonkwo described it as “a clearly unsustainable judicial ambush got at the prize of rude injustice.”

He counselled the sowers of confusion in PDP to retrace their steps, while charging Dr Nwodo and the National Committee members to move swiftly and consolidate Jonathan’s candidature.