Report that several chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are disposed to have Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan as the party presidential candidate in 2027 has provoked reaction from the All Progressives Congress, APC.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
The report gained wide attention about four days ago, when Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Mohammed, said he would drop his ambition to contest for the presidency if Jonathan decided to go for the exalted office on the platform of the PDP.
Mohammed, who was Federal Capital Territory minister during Jonathan’s time as President, and now PDP Governors’ Forum chairman, declared this in Abuja while speaking at an event organised by a non-governmental organisation, Save Africa Initiative.
“We are absolutely in support of the position of the Bauchi State governor. Don’t forget, he was a prominent member of the Jonathan’s administration where he was a minister. As the chairman of the 13 governors of the PDP, a two-term minister, former senator and a two-term governor rounding off his second term, you will expect him to understand and appreciate the situation of where this country is coming from, where it is at the moment and where we hope to take it to in the future.
“If you are talking about a southern Presidency in 2027, we should be looking at one who had enjoyed one term and will probably give Nigerians hope and prosperity as opposed to the one we have in power,” the Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Ibrahim Abdullahi corroborated the governor.
The corroboration is by an interview Abdullahi granted Punchng where the ruling APC also reacted to the permutation.
“For us to start talking talking about 2027 is not only premature, but a calculation that is doomed. Less than 40 per cent of the mandate given to the President under the APC has not even been consumed. There is just no way the APC as a party will be jittery, if at all, there is such plan to enrol former President Goodluck Jonathan into the race.
“The APC defeated him when he was in power. Defeating him when he’s out of power will be a walkover. It is something that cannot even give the party a sleepless night. So, whoever is making this permutation, if the intention is to scare the APC as a party, I think he needs to go back to the drawing board and think again. We are not worried,” APC National Director of Publicity, Bala Ibrahim, told the paper.
