Less than a week after departing Lagos State, President Goodluck Jonathan will visit the state again on Sunday to meet with about 5,000 youths in a programme titled, ‘Meet the President.’
A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, announced this on his Facebook page.
He wrote, “Nigeria’s most youth-friendly President ever, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be meeting with Nigerian youths in Lagos this weekend. Power to the youths!”
Jonathan had, last week, spent five days in the state where he seized the opportunity to visit Yoruba monarchs and also meet with market leaders to seek their support
Lagos State, which is the most populous state in the country, has almost six million registered voters.
According to leaders of the Peoples Democratic Party, in order to win the March 28 elections, Jonathan will need to gain the majority of the votes in the South-West particularly Lagos because the North-West, where the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), hails from has over 18 million registered voters.
The North-West comprises Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara states. Buhari won in all the North-West states in 2011.
However, the South-South and South-East, where majority of Jonathan’s supporters are, have the lowest number of registered voters in the country.
The APC has been in control of Lagos since 1999 but the state has a large number of non-indigenes which the President is banking on for support.
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