BY HENRY UMORU
ABUJA— AS part of moves to boost the campaign of President Goodluck Jonathan, the Presidential Campaign Council yesterday launched an e-Campaign option, designed to lobby well over 65 per cent of Nigerian registered voters.

Flagging off the unique campaign programme yesterday, Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who urged Nigerians to support the presidential ambition of Goodluck/Sambo, stressed that they both represented hope and bright future for the ordinary people.

Orubebe, who appealed to Nigeria youth to vote President Jonathan who is one of their own, against the backdrop that he had genuine intention for championing the cause of the ordinary people, adding that the president and his vice believed in the ability of the ordinary Nigerian promoting the cause of the country more than the bourgeoisie.

The Minister disclosed that arrangements had been concluded for putting in place of a youth carnival for Jonathan and Sambo, aimed at bringing the realities of what the administration would become in the future to them.

The e-campaign option, tagged Neighbour-2-Neighbour Campaign, uses electronic mail options in reaching out to virtually all the Nigerians, especially the youths, which the organisers put at 65 per cent of the 67 million registered voters, just as it is prepared in soft electronic copy with several audio/visual parameters.

The programme as designed, would use the blackberry, ordinary mobile phone, i-pod or other electronic devices to appeal to the voters to cast their votes in the forthcoming Presidential Election for President Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo.

According to the Minister, President Jonathan believes more in the ability of an individual more than where he/she comes form or other mundane consideration.

He stressed that if Nigeria must get there, President Jonathan must be voted for, adding that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was a focused, visionary leader.

Orubebe said: “He ( Jonathan) is one who represents hope and bright future for the common man.  He believes in the equality of all Nigerians and the only credential one needs to be in any office is the ability to perform given tasks.

“We, at the campaign organization, know that it is the youth who hold the ace in this election.  Jonathan is one of you.  I appeal to you to vote for him massively as he will not disappoint you.’’

Earlier in his remarks, the Coordinator, Youth for Transformation, Mr. Uche Chuta, and Project Coordinator, Neighbour-2-Neighbour Project, Eka Williams, noted that the campaign team had introduced unique e-campaign strategy, aimed at making available a two-way instant campaign strategy, aimed at eliciting immediate feedback from Nigerians.

He added that the strategy, which is pushed out through on-line media like the mobile phones, internet, i-pod and others, were aimed at providing all the needed information about the envisaged Jonathan/Sambo presidency.

According to them, the President believes he needs to be in personal touch with the electorate and every Nigerian which is why he made it a point to communicate with them personally through these media fares.

Orubebe noted that suggestions will help him to know how to improve on the campaign strategy and all other needs of the Nigerian masses could be uploaded through these media fares.