Nigeria’s ThisDay newspaper has made international news by reporting that former President Jimmy Carter is on the verge of endorsing the presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama. Quoting a conversation Carter had with correspondents in Nigeria’s capital Abuja, ThisDay wrote:
Former President of the United States, Jimmy Carter has hinted that he might cast his vote for Senator Barack Obama to aid his emergence as the candidate for the Democrats in America’s bid to elect a new President.
Carter, who is a Super Delegate from Georgia State, gave this hint at a media interaction after the Carter Center Awards for Guinea Worm Eradication in Abuja yesterday.
Carter, who was accompanied by his wife Rosalynn, did not profess a direct support for Obama but rather choose to make a veiled statement.
“We are very interested in the primaries. Don’t forget that Obama won in my state of Georgia. My town which is home to 625 people is for Obama, my children and their spouses are pro- Obama.
My grandchildren are also pro- Obama. As a Super Delegate, I would not disclose who I am rooting for but I leave you to make that guess,” he said.
There seems to be a deluge of super-delegates now moving towards the Obama candidacy.
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