The lawmaker who was representing Kaduna Central lawmaker in the 8th National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has advised former President Goodluck Jonathan not to allow politicians’ cabals to be used and dumped.
Newsflash Nigeria had earlier reported that some cabals in the presidency and some stakeholders within the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are pressuring Jonathan to join the 2023 presidential race.
There have been several reports that some stakeholders within APC are bent on having Jonathan as the party’s 2023 presidential candidate so the north can return to power after four years.
This was further confirmed by Jonathan’s ex-media aide, Reuben Abati in a post on his Facebook page.
Abati had shared a story on his Facebook page that his ex-principal will soon declare under APC.
Reacting, the former lawmaker, Sani spoke against the backdrop of unfolding events and possible consequences regarding the 2023 presidential election with insinuations that Jonathan is under pressure to join the race.
Sani who took to his Twitter account on Monday warned Jonathan not to deceive himself or allow others to deceive him.
He wrote: “GEJ should not deceive himself nor allow them to deceive him.”
GEJ should not deceive himself nor allow them to deceive him.
— Senator Shehu Sani (@ShehuSani) April 25, 2022
Amidst the developing political drama, on Thursday, April 21, the posters of the ex-President flooded the national secretariat of the APC on Blantyre Street, Wuse 2.
However, on Friday, April 22, youth and women groups demonstrated outside of Jonathan’s office in the Maitama area of Abuja.
The demonstrators, who arrived in five large buses, held up placards some of which read, ‘Jonathan, Please Run’, ‘Jonathan, do the needful’, ‘Jonathan for 2023’, ‘Jonathan Declare Now’ and ‘Goodluck Please Come Back, We Love You’.
A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the Convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria, said, “We were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.
“Now, we know better, under Jonathan the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us, we have realised our mistakes; we want him back to complete what he started.”
Jonathan subsequently invited the leaders of the protesters for a private meeting. After the brief meeting, the ex-President addressed the demonstrators outside, advising the youths to run for office instead, adding that the constitution had been amended as far back as 2018 in order to give youths a chance to contest.
The ex-President said he was not sure if he would run. He, however, asked them to ‘watch out.
“Yes you are calling me to come and declare for the next election, I cannot tell if I’m declaring. The political process is ongoing just watch out. The key role you must play is that Nigeria must get somebody that will carry young people along,” the former President added.
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