2027 Elections: How Jonathan Is Allegedly Planning His Campaign
- Former President Goodluck Jonathan's camp has been reportedly putting major plans in place to join the 2027 presidential race
- The reported move followed public outcry, with his wife asking why he would want to take up the burden God had relieved him of
- Multiple sources claimed that the former president's camp has held a series of meetings outside the country to avoid infiltration
Goodluck Jonathan, the former President, has allegedly started planning to contest the 2027 presidential election, despite public rejection of the ambition from his wife, Patience.
Legit.ng recalled that the former first lady lamented the pressure that comes with holding public office when she received the Women Icon Leader of the Year Award in Abuja in May.
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Her statement at the time read in part:
“The distress of Nigeria is so much that if God manages to bring you out of it, you should glorify Him. Why do you want to go back there?"
She added that the current peace she enjoys is enough for her and subsequently endorsed the administration of President Bola Tinubu. She also promised to campaign for Tinubu's second term in office.
However, Daily Sun has since reported that the former president was not shaken by his wife's disapproval of his ambition and had intensified his move to ensure that he clinches the PDP's presidential ticket.
2027 election: Jonathan's camp holds meetings abroad
To outsmart spies in the camp, many supporters of the former president, especially those in his inner circle have allegedly held several meetings outside the country with a focus to consolidate the former president's support base within the PDP, as well as coming up with the strategy to handle what they referred to as 'Nyesom Wike problem'.
The coinage was a reference to the conflict between the PDP and the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Wike, in his last interview, urged the former president not to join the 2027 race but should maintain his pace of a statesman. The minister also accused those calling for the return of the former president as betrayal and hypocrites, saying the same people undermined him in the 2015 presidential election.
Jonathan's camp were said to be worried about Wike's comment, describing it as a threat to the former president's second coming as a source disclosed that the minister's opposition cannot be ignored, which was 'why some of our meetings have been about how to ensure he does not become a stumbling block'.
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El-Rufai speaks on preferred presidential candidate
Legit.ng earlier reported that former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai had said that he has no preferred presidential candidate in the 2027 elections.
The former governor made the clarification in Imo, stating that no government has worsened the country in two years like the APC's President Tinubu.
El-Rufai then called on the people of Imo state to attend voter registration events, explaining that the southeast states have been recording low turn-out.
Proofreading by Bruce Douglas, copy editor at Legit.ng.
Source: Legit.ng
