Alhaji Mohammed Jimeta the PDP Aspirant, has vowed to lead a protest against any attempt to impose candidates on members of the party and the state in the 2015 general elections.

Jimeta, who addressed journalists at the press centre of the Nigerian Union of Journalists in Yola on Tuesday, said his ambition was to contest the 2015 governorship election and not the forthcoming October 11, 2014 governorship bye-election.

He said, “I will organise a rally to kick against imposition of any candidate should it happen again, because candidate have always been imposed on people of the state since 1999.

“We have all seen the damaging effects of this unfortunate development and collectively suffered its consequences in the state. So we shall not allow a repetition of it.”

He warned that “already some smart aspirants have started parading the names of Mr. President and National Chairman of the party that they have their backing.”

He urged the PDP at both the state and national levels to be wary of the the implication of taking wrong steps and selecting the wrong candidate.

He said, “A big opposition party is eagerly waiting for the wrong choice by the PDP so that it will capitalise on the error and takeover the state,” he said.

He also appealed to journalists in the state to assist the people of Adamawa State to chart a new democratic path, that would deliver them from “deprivation and massive sufferings”.

In a related development, the state chairman of the PDP, Chief Joel Madaki, assured that “the current crop of party executives will not allow imposition of candidate, and will ensure that the people’s choice emerges”.

The party chairman said this during a meeting of the party executives in Yola.

Madaki recalled that about nine aspirants indicated their interest to contest the governorship primary election in Adamawa State in 2007.

But he lamented that a candidate was imposed not only on the aspirants but also on the people of the state.

He appealed to the people of the state to continue to have faith in the party leadership, promising to conduct free, fair, credible and acceptable primary election.

He also called on the people of the state to “remain calm and focussed as they await the party primary election”.