Presidency denounces Jonathan 2015 posters, CPC raises concern

The Presidency has denied involvement in the posters supporting the candidature of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election.
It said the President has no hand in it.
But the Congress for Progressive Change has raised concern over the posters, saying the language used suggests that there was a monster in the making that would not want to hear any opposition voice.
One of the posters, pasted in conspicuous places in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, reads: “2015: No Vacancy in Aso Rock! One Good Term Deserves Another.”
But Jonathan’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, said of the posters: “Those pasting the posters are trying to express their own view.
“The President had stated that he would talk about the presidency from 2014.
“Those doing these do not have the consent of the President.
“What is most important now is for the President to deliver on his electioneering promise to Nigerians and not to embark on the pasting of posters.
“It has not come from the President.
“Nigerians should take the President for his word and ignore any other information to the contrary.
“He believes that those doing that are playing games.
“There is no reason for the President to engage in any form of scaremongering.
“He has said that by 2014, his position on the 2015 presidential race would be made public.
“Nigerians should wait till then.
“Since the posters do not have the names of those promoting it, there is little the President can do.
“We do not know those behind the posters so the President cannot do anything.
“Our appeal is that those behind this should allow the President concentrate on the job at hand.
“The President’s main pre-occupation now is to continue to provide service and quality leadership.”
But the CPC in a statement by its spokesperson, Engineer Rotimi Fashakin, said: “If Dr. Jonathan is interested in contesting the Presidency in 2015, we say, why not?
“However, what is of grave concern is the portent of the posters: ‘No vacancy in Aso Rock in 2015.’
“Is this the language of democratic practice?
“Is there not a fundamental defect in our political system where supposed leaders transform into monsters?
“Have we not trodden this pathway before in which another leader – of the same political stock as this President – declared an election a ‘do or die’ process?
“Is the President likely to shed off civility and put on the garb of African leaders – in recent history – that have shown desperation in their final descent from power?
“Is this not an early warning that results of the 2015 presidential election have been written and kept in wrap just for the ‘formal’ announcement?
“ Is this a feverish response (by) the Presidency of the impending merger of the major opposition parties?
“Is this a way of unduly overheating the polity, as an excuse for unleashing a very capricious onslaught on the opposition?”