It is amazing how Jonathan and Babangida focussed on character assassination instead of polity as means for their campaign,this is gross immaturity,Do-or-Die,on their part,are these guys fit or qualify to lead this nation?
President Goodluck Jonathan never contacted the former chairman of DAAR Communications, owners of the African Independent Television (AIT) and Raypower Radio, Raymond Dokpesi, to head his campaign organisation, the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation, said yesterday in Abuja.

The organisation was reacting to Mr. Dokpesi's media interview at the weekend in which he denied he said he was being roped into the October 1 bomb attacks because of his refusal to head Mr. Jonathan's team.

Mr. Dokpesi, who is the director general of Ibrahim Babangida Campaign Organisation, was quizzed last week by the State Security Service (SSS) over his alleged involvement in the incident. He is believed to be reporting daily to the security organisation.

But in a statement yesterday, titled ‘Disclaimer: Dokpesi was never under consideration', the president's campaign handlers said Mr. Dokpesi was never approached for the job.

"The attention of the Goodluck/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organization has been drawn to certain utterances by the Director General of the Babangida Campaign Organization, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, to the effect that he was suffering an imagined political persecution because he declined to head our campaign organisation.

"Nothing could be farther from the truth. At no time was Chief Dokpesi considered for such a role. He never made it to anybody's short list or long list," the statement, signed by Sully Abu, its spokesperson, said.

The organisation said Mr. Dokpesi's claim defies political common sense "as such position is normally given to someone outside the geographical zoneof the aspirant. Dokpesi, being from the South South, as is President Jonathan, could never have been considered for such a position."

Campaign tour

Meanwhile, the organisation, led by its director general, Dalhatu Tafida, will today arrive in Sokoto in the north west geo-political zone, to begin a nationwide "meet-the-stakeholders" tour.