One of the groups behind the campaign for President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to contest the 2011 presidential election has vowed to continue with its activities in spite of the directive by the president that such campaigns should be discontinued. Yar'Adua had, at the recent special convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), frowned at those campaigning for him towards the 2011 election and directed that  campaigns should be kept on hold until 2010. But Chief Elvis Agukwe, the National Co-ordinator of Patriots for Democracy and Good Governance (PADGOG), dismissed the president's directive, saying that Yar'Adua cannot stop his group because the president did not appoint them in the first place. He expressed the view yesterday, while speaking to newsmen in his Abuja residence. "I am not aware that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua appointed any group to commence campaign for him to contest the 2011 presidential election. It is when you appoint people to commence an action for you that you can direct them to discontinue. The president did not appoint PADGOG and neither his government nor any of its agents is funding our activities. So how can he tell us to stop," Elvis asked. Explaining why the organisation started the campaign for the president to run for a second term in office, the national coordinator said, "PADGOG honestly believes that because the president is on the right path, because he has provided Nigeria with good governance, he has to appropriate his constitutional right to seek a second mandate from the people and nobody can stop us from expressing our views in a country presently being governed in strict adherence to the rule of law," Elvis said. Coming strongly against those asking President Yar'Adua not to contest the 2011 elections, Elvis described such people as arrogant noise makers who want to silence those with different views from their biased opinion. "There are so many people saying all manner of things against the president and his administration. First, they made the president's health an issue.Then, they said that the president is slow and that the administration lacks focus. That is their view. They are the same people calling on the president not to contest the 2011 election. Nobody has asked these funny characters to shut up.