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2023 PRESIDENCY: Why Goodluck Jonathan will Move To APC
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“It’s not that they love him; they don’t
love him. It’s just that they want to use
him because he has proven himself to be
a winning tool. It may be politically
suicidal for him at the end of the day.”
Pundits have given reasons why the All
Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are
keeping an eye on former President
Goodluck Jonathan to dump the opposition
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and pitch
tent with the ruling party.<br><br>
Since the visit of APC governors led by
Yobe State governor and chairman of the
Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention
Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, on
the occasion of Jonathan’s birthday in his
Abuja residence in November the polity
has been twitching with speculations of
his possible defection to the ruling party.
This is especially as the APC has resolved
to whittle down the structure of the PDP.
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The ruling party has continue to harvest
PDP governors, senators, members of the
House of Representatives and many other
bigwigs into its fold ahead of the 2023
general elections.
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Last week, the Acting National Chairman
of the PDP, Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, led a
delegation of party leaders from the South
on a visit to the former president in his
Abuja residence.
There were hints that the PDP leaders
visited the former president to, among
other things, appeal to him not to defect
to the APC in view of the current crisis
bedevilling the opposition party.<br><br>>
The South is agitating for power shift to
the region on the expiration of President
Muhammadu Buhari’s tenure in 2023, on
the grounds that a gentleman pact was
reached by APC leaders prior to the 2015
poll that the party would cede its apex
ticket to the South after Buhari.
A credible source in the APC who spoke
with our correspondent, however, claimed
that Jonathan was approached to jump
ship to the APC so he could pick the
party’s presidential ticket to win the 2023
poll and hand over power to the North in
2027.
“It is the northern calculation to retain
power for long. But the request, the
agitation for the presidential seat to be
rotated to the South in 2023 is becoming
louder. So they want to use Jonathan as a
very soft bride to quickly cross a very long
ocean.<br><br>
“What I mean is that Jonathan has already
done four years as president, so he would
be the only candidate from the South that
constitutionally is not permitted to do
eight years. So what they want to do now
is to use him to achieve that aim so that
after governing for four years, the power
will shift to the North in 2027,” he said.
He argued that the political actors in the
North were feeling cheated that the South
had spent more years in the State House
since the return to democracy in 1999.
“This is the reason the North is agitating:
Obasanjo did eight years from the South,
then power shifted to the North, but
Yar’adua didn’t complete his tenure.
Jonathan completed that tenure and
enjoyed a fresh tenure of four years as
president.<br><br>
“So eight years of Obasanjo plus six years
of Jonathan, that is 14 years. Two years of
Yar’adua and eight years of Buhari will be
10 years. So the South is still ahead of the
North by four years,” he said.
Another source in the PDP who spoke
with our correspondent said, “I agree that
Jonathan will be a very good material and
will be good for this permutation to have
stability for democracy.
“For Jonathan to do one term of office and
leave power to return to the North in
2027 is a better calculation if the
northerners will be patient.”
But a political analyst, Chief Jackson
Lekan Ojo, said, “How on earth is it that
Jonathan who was the target of political
destruction in 2015 is now becoming a
bride for the same party that ousted him?

“I want to advise Jonathan, the kind of
honour they are giving to him across the
globe now, I think he is worth it. But if by
any chance Jonathan contests election in
2023, he might eventually lose to a PDP
candidate who emerges from the North
and that will be politically suicidal for
him.
“So for me, as he has retired, and as an
elder statesman, he has been deputy
governor, he has been governor. He was
vice president, he has been acting
president, he has been president. What
else does he want? He should not allow
APC to use him.
“It’s not that they love him; they don’t
love him. It’s just that they want to use
him because he has proven himself to be
a winning tool. It may be politically
suicidal for him at the end of the day.”
A chieftain of the APC, Barrister
Abdullahi Jalo, confirmed to our
correspondent that party leaders were
working hard to move key political actors
from the PDP including Jonathan.
“I left PDP for APC and he (Jonathan) is
my leader, so I will be very glad to see
him join the APC. I was working with
him,” he added.

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When contacted for comments, Governor
Buni’s Director General, Press and Media,
Mamman Mohammed, said he was not
aware of the development.
The APC Deputy National Publicity
Secretary, Yekini Nabena, who spoke with
our correspondent, however, said, “it is
not an issue to discuss.”

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