We didn’t adopt Jonathan – UPN

Ahead of the February 14 presidential election, the Unity Party of Nigeria says it has not adopted any presidential candidate.
 

The National Secretary of the party, Alhaji Abubakar Sokoto, clarified this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.
 

“The Leadership of the Unity Party of Nigeria did not authorise the suspended National Chairman nor direct any official of the party at any level to commit the party to support any presidential candidate,’’ it said.
 

The suspended UPN National Chairman, Dr Frederick Fasehun, was alleged to have recently endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan as the party’s presidential flag bearer for the poll.

But Sokoto said the party received the news as a great embarrassment to all its leaders and supporters across the world.
 

“On behalf of the National Executive Committee of our party, I am urging the general public and party leaders to disregard the highest act of irresponsibility of the suspended national chairman."
 

“It is embarrassing to leaders and supporters of our party all over the country to hear the suspended national chairman dragging the name of our party to ridicule."
 

“The National Executive Committee, which is the highest organ of the party, has not met to take a decision on the issue of Presidential Election,’’ the statement read in part."

 
The party frowned at the dictatorial tendencies exhibited by the suspended national chairman and pledged to ensure that due diligence and party discipline were enforced at all levels. ...Punch