The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has warned those pushing Goodluck Jonathan to contest in the 2027 presidential election.
Wike spoke on Thursday night when he appeared as a guest on Channels TV’s Politics Today.
Jonathan served as Nigerian president under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from 2010 to 2015 before he was defeated by the then All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.
Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, in August, said Jonathan was among those being considered by the PDP for the party’s 2027 presidential ticket.
Apart from Bala Mohammed, the chairperson of the PDP Governors Forum, other party chieftains have hinted that the former president would likely become the party’s flagbearer in the 2027 presidential election.
Speaking on the TV programme, Wike, a member of the PDP and ally of President Bola Tinubu, said it was hypocritical that those pushing Jonathan to seek re-election were the same people who frustrated the former president’s second term bid in 2015.
“Anybody saying Jonathan should return because he will only do one term is only looking for a crisis.
“These are the same people who abandoned him in 2015. Why now? Jonathan has made a name for himself globally, and they just want to drag him into unnecessary conflict,” he said.
The FCT minister insisted that pushing Jonathan or any southern candidate under the pretext of a “one-term presidency” is an insincere ploy and a threat to Nigeria’s political balance.
