Few years after he left office some Arewa leaders are calling on former President Goodluck Jonathan to run for the highest office in the country.
Under the aegis of Arewa Consensus For Jonathan, the northern opinion leaders said the country would bounce back with the return of Jonathan to power.
The ACJ made the during on Monday in Bauchi state, while addressing some journalists on the way forward for the country and the state of the nation.
The former president has not indicated interest in the office currently occupied by incumbent, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, even though some leaders of thoughts are trying to drag him into the race.
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi state recently said the former president is qualified to run for the office again close to a decade after he left Aso Rock, Nigeria’s presidency.
The Bauchi governor, one of those currently eyeing Tinubu’s job had disclosed that he will not run if the former president decide to throw his hat in the ring to contest the highest office in the land.
The governor said the former Nigerian leader will do a better job in turning around the country than the incumbent, Jonathan he said, will fix the economic and social problems facing the country if allowed to return to power.
Mohammed: “With regard to your call for me to present myself, I am still contemplating my chances as the leader of the opposition.
“I know there are good leaders within the PDP, especially my boss Goodluck Jonathan.
“I have always said that as long as Jonathan is around, I will not present myself for leadership of this country, unless he decides not to run.
“If we can persuade him to come forward, I will support him with my blood. Out of modesty, he is still not ready. I hope you will meet him and encourage him to run.
“He will do a better job because he has the experience. We know the prices of things; we know the level of inflation.
“During Jonathan’s regime, he was inclusive, addressing issues like the Almajiri system and creating initiatives for unemployed youths.
“His leadership recruitment was exemplary. We need leaders like him—young people with energy, foresight, and drive,” the Bauchi governor said.
Meanwhile, the former president’s wife Patience Jonathan had recently asserted that her husband had no interest in returning to the Nigerian Presidency.
Jonathan left power in 2015, after he was defeated in the election by the immediate past President Muhammadu Buhari.
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