By Uche Mbah
Former president Goodluck Jonathan today stormed Aso Villa, the Nigerian seat of power, immediately after President Buhari’s meeting with security Chiefs. He went straight to the office of the president where he met with Buhari for about a quarter of an hour.
This is the seventh time that he will be visiting the Villa since he left office, the last being last October.
Earlier, the national association of Nigerian students, NANS, had visited Jonathan at his Abuja home to commiserate with him over the attack at his home that killed one of the soldiers on guard at the house.
Jonathan was escorted out of the Villa by the president, but declined to answer any question from state house correspondents.
Jonathan’s visit coincides with the security issue that has become topical in the Nigerian polity today, which made Buhari to summon security chiefs this morning.
Since Jonathan left office, he has kept his life at low profile. Apart from many election monitoring jobs in various African countries, he hardly comments on national issues, except to debunk rumors that he may still nurse presidential ambition come 2023.
Meanwhile, little is as yet known of the result of the meeting of President Buhari with security chiefs. Many expects him to act on the recommendations from the National Assembly, who had asked his appointees to resign their positions. But analyst believe that based on precedence, the status quo ante will be maintained.
President Buhari and his handlers has always blamed Jonathan for all the economic woes that the country is facing, labeling his regime a corrupt regime. Most of those being prosecuted by the Buhari Administration are those who worked with Jonathan. This Jonathan himself had predicted when he was leaving office, when he said that many of those who worked with him are going to be persecuted and prosecuted.
Jonathan went back to his house in Abuja.
