Count Chime out of plot against Jonathan –Ayogu

A member of President Goodluck Jonathan’s 109-member
Contact Committee in Enugu State, Chief Fidel Ayogu, has
dismissed as unfounded, recent reports linking the state
Governor, Sullivan Chime, to alleged plot against the president
by some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governors.
Ayogu, who spoke yesterday at a PDP campaign rally in Igbo-
Eze North Council Area of the state, where the governor
canvassed massive support for the president in the coming
elections, insisted that Enugu State was not collaborating with
any political party in the forthcoming elections, contrary to
claims by some candidates of the opposition parties in the
state.
Also at the rally, the people of Igbo Eze North Local
Government Area and Senator Ayogu’s kinsmen expressed
support for the PDP governorship candidate, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi,
urging all to put behind them, any crisis that may have arisen
from the governorship primary election in the state in which
the senator lost.
Giving a vote of thanks before a capacity crowd described by
Chime as intimidating, Ayogu countered insinuations that the
Enugu governor was among five PDP governors plotting
against Jonathan’s success in the presidential election.
He said: “Chime has made sufficient and visible efforts in
campaigning for Jonathan and the credit of whatever votes
Mr. President garner in Enugu in the election should be given
to the governor in view of the clear groundswell of support he
(Chime) has galvanized for him.”
Addressing the people earlier at the rally, Chime stated that
the PDP in the state was popular, strong and formidable and
does not need the collaboration of another political party to
win elections.
He said the clarification became necessary due to attempts by
some former members of the PDP now in the opposition to
mislead PDP supporters to vote for them and their political
parties during the general elections.
He told the people to disregard such machinations by those
he described as “selfish politicians” and vote all PDP
candidates during the elections.
Also speaking, Ugwuanyi thanked the people of the area for
the tremendous support they had given as he represented
them for nearly 12 years in the National Assembly, and
assured that he would do more to address their development
needs if elected governor of the state.