A former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Chief Joju Fadairo, has warned ex-president Goodluck Jonathan not to allow himself to be deceived into having another shot at the nation’s Presidency in 2019.
Fadairo said that Jonathan should not hearken the “voices of deception” urging him to re-contest the Presidency in 2019 in order not to cause disaffection in the country.
We have to be fair to all concerned. He (Jonathan) just left office
The former Ogun PDP chairman gave this warning in an exclusive chat with our correspondent in Abeokuta, Ogun State. He argued that since the PDP ticket for the next occupant of the number one political office in the country had been reserved for a candidate from the North, it would be wrong for Jonathan to declare interest in the same position in 2019.
“What is his (Jonathan’s) business in re-contesting? The thing is for the Northerners now, not southerners. So, he should let sleeping dog lie,” Fadairo said.
The PDP chieftain maintained that Jonathan should rather support the advice by form e r president Olusegun Obasanjo that the South East geo-political zone should be allowed to produce Nigeria’s president in 2019.
Fadairo added that should Jonathan attempt to have another shot at the highest office in 2019, his kinsmen in the South South and other citizens from the other parts of the country would resist the move to show solidarity with the South East geo-political zone.
“So, why can’t the Presidency go to where uncle Obasanjo said it should gothe South East? He (Jonathan) just did it from the SouthSouth, he wants to go again? The South East people will not even be happy with him, not to talk of other people.
I don’t support Jonathan coming back,” he said. Fadairo, therefore, called on Nigerians not to allow the current economic hardship to force them into thinking that the immediate past president should re contest in the 2019 elections.
“Who are the Nigerians that are saying Jonathan should come, that they are hungry. Who are those Nigerians, are they politicians? How many of them out of 150million people that are telling you he should come back?
A Yoruba proverb says if you have a friend you have not seen for some time, you have to ask about him. If he is leaving the state for about one year, do you know the kind of person he will be? I am not saying he is not good. He is a good person, but by convention, the Northerners should have it.”
