By Nwabueze Okonkwo

ONITSHA—National chairman of Nigerian Civil War Veterans of (1967 – 1970), under the aegis of Carefirst for the Aged Welfare Development Association of Nigeria, CAWDAN, Ubi Okoi, said yesterday that the group has mobilized over 65,000 members for President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 elections.

Consequently, he called on the President to urgently declare his intention to run for a second  term in office in the elections.

Okoi, who made the disclosure in Onitsha, Anambra State, while speaking to newsmen, said Jonathan deserved a second term in office because of his on-going transformation agenda.

He said: “President Jonathan should as a matter of urgency declare his intention to run for a second tenure in 2015 because we have already concluded all the arrangements to engage the over sixty-five thousand members of the body living in different parts of the country to give their support to ensure the emergence of the President in 2015 presidential election.”

He noted that members of the group, in their youth, contributed their quota to the peacekeeping of the country,.