Chris Okotie Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Presidential runs== [[File:Okotie press conference 2011.jpg|thumb|Okotie speaking at a press conference in 2011, Lagos]] Okotie first ran for the President under the banner of the [[Justice Party (Nigeria)|Justice Party]] (JP), led by Ralph Obiorah after he was schemed out of the [[National Democratic Party (Nigeria)|National Democratic Party]] (NDP) primaries elections; he lost to [[Olusegun Obasanjo]] in the May 2003 elections. He ran again in 2007 on the platform of a party he founded, [[Fresh Democratic Party|Fresh Democratic party]], FRESH and lost to [[Umaru Yar'Adua]] in the [[2007 Nigerian general election|May 2007 elections]]. Then in 2011, he ran and lost to the President [[Goodluck Jonathan]].<ref>{{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20121217050341/http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/okotie-faults-inecs-justifi-cation-for-deregistration-of-parties/ "Okotie faults INEC's justification for deregistration of parties"]}}, ''[[National Mirror]]'', London, 14 December 2012. Retrieved on 14 December 2012.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page