2027: Those Fronting Jonathan  Looking  For Crisis

By Adesina Soyooye

Minister for the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has accused those rooting for the return of former President Goodluck Jonathan to office in 2027, of deliberately romancing crisis.

Jonathan, an incumbent President, was defeated, under a Peoples Democratic Party Government, in  the 2015 Presidential election by the All Progressives Congress Candidate, then General Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari’s defeat of Jonathan was seen by not a few as a result of betrayals even from within his party, lies, propaganda, tribal and religious sentiments.

But as the race for the 2027 election gradually heats up, many politicians from across board, including members of the PDP, especially those who betrayed him, and the Coalition of the opposition under the African Democratic Congress, ADC, are suddenly courting him, and rooting for him to stage a come back.

But Wike, one of the few PDP high profile members who stood behind him in 2015, has advised against dragging Jonathan into the race.

Speaking Thursday during an interview with Channels Television, Wike said those fronting Jonathan on the grounds that he, or any Southern candidate will do only one term were only courting crisis and political imbalance.

He wondered why anybody would want to drag Jonathan into the arena when the former President has attained the status of a global citizen and a world statesman.

He also doubted the sincerity of those who want Jonathan now and asked them: What changed?

According to Wike, these are the same people who worked against Jonathan in 2015 and betrayed him, why do they want him now if not to cause political crisis and political imbalance in the country? What changed between now and when they betrayed him?, Wike asked.