MY RESPONSE ON FORMER PRESIDENT JONATHAN BEING DRAGGED INTO 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BY THE NORTH
October 7, 2020 | News
This subject matter is quite simple to me and should not be made a big deal because, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan remains a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As such, he has the right to exercise his civic right as a Nigerian, and a former president
MY RESPONSE ON FORMER PRESIDENT JONATHAN BEING DRAGGED INTO 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BY THE NORTH
This subject matter is quite simple to me and should not be made a big deal because, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan remains a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As such, he has the right to exercise his civic right as a Nigerian, and a former president, to be actively involved in the 2023 presidential election if he so wishes, either as a Presidential candidate himself, or just there to support someone else.
Let us bear in mind that he still has the window to contest for the presidential elections since he ruled for just one tenure and only completed the one before that which he came as a Vice President and later President.
Having said that, in my own candid opinion, if I were Goodluck Jonathan, I will not accept the pressure, either from the North or anyone else, to contest any election again because knowing the sort of politics played in Nigeria, it may just be an attempt to dent his image further.
There is a saying that goes: "It is better to leave the stage when the ovation is loudest". Jonathan achieved that when he calmly conceded defeat and accepted the 2015 presidential election that brought President Muhammadu Buhari in. What else could Jonathan want to achieve? What is it that Jonathan could not do well, with the six years plus as the President of Nigeria, that he wants to achieve again in another tenure?
I believe Jonathan should be very careful not to accept any Greek gift, either from any person or any other geopolitical parts of the country. That is the way I see it.
Zik Gbemre.
October 7, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes
This subject matter is quite simple to me and should not be made a big deal because, former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan remains a citizen of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. As such, he has the right to exercise his civic right as a Nigerian, and a former president, to be actively involved in the 2023 presidential election if he so wishes, either as a Presidential candidate himself, or just there to support someone else.
Let us bear in mind that he still has the window to contest for the presidential elections since he ruled for just one tenure and only completed the one before that which he came as a Vice President and later President.
Having said that, in my own candid opinion, if I were Goodluck Jonathan, I will not accept the pressure, either from the North or anyone else, to contest any election again because knowing the sort of politics played in Nigeria, it may just be an attempt to dent his image further.
There is a saying that goes: "It is better to leave the stage when the ovation is loudest". Jonathan achieved that when he calmly conceded defeat and accepted the 2015 presidential election that brought President Muhammadu Buhari in. What else could Jonathan want to achieve? What is it that Jonathan could not do well, with the six years plus as the President of Nigeria, that he wants to achieve again in another tenure?
I believe Jonathan should be very careful not to accept any Greek gift, either from any person or any other geopolitical parts of the country. That is the way I see it.
Zik Gbemre.
October 7, 2020.
We Mobilize Others To Fight For Individual Causes As If Those Were Our Causes