Monday, August 18, 2025 - Former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani has stated why former president Goodluck Jonathan should not contest the forthcoming 2027 presidential election.
Speaking as a guest on ‘Sunday Politics’, a programme on
Channels Television, Sani said the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the party
Jonathan used to win the election in 2011, is no longer united.
Sani advised the ex-president to jettison the idea of
running for presidency come 2027.
The former federal lawmaker pointed out that Jonathan’s name
always comes out whenever there is an election, stressing that it is his
volition to contest.
“But I advise him not to do that. The reason is very simple:
the PDP he used to know is not the PDP now.
“The PDP in the South-West is endorsing the president. Some
members of the party are in the coalition. So, it is the party he used to know
so he shouldn’t waste his time,” he said.
Recall that Jonathan, who was Vice President to former late
President Umaru Yar’adua for three years before his death, ascended to the
presidency on May 6, 2010, till May 29, 2011, elected on the PDP platform and
was in power till May 29, 2015.
The ex-Nigerian leader also re-contested in 2015 but lost to
late Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
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