2027 Presidency: ‘No automatic ticket for Jonathan in PDP’

By our reporter

The Gbenga Hashim Solidarity Movement (GHSM) has declared that erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan volition not bask a “free ride” to the statesmanlike summons of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, successful 2027.

Reacting to remarks credited to Prof. Jerry Gana suggesting Jonathan’s imaginable comeback connected the PDP platform, the GHSM National Coordinator, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, stressed that the PDP flagbearer would lone look done an unfastened and transparent process successful enactment with the Electoral Act 2022.

“With owed respect, Prof. Jerry Gana is entitled to his enthusiasm astir the instrumentality of erstwhile President Jonathan. However, lone PDP delegates to the nationalist normal tin prime the party’s flagbearer, and ultimately, God Almighty volition find the outcome, not a fewer enactment stalwarts,” Hamzat said successful a statement.

Hamzat argued that Nigerians are yearning for progress, not a instrumentality to the past, informing that Jonathan represents an “old order” galore citizens are acceptable to consign to history.

“The Jonathan epoch cannot beryllium painted arsenic a cleanable time. It was a play erstwhile the diverseness of our federation began to beryllium profoundly mismanaged, rekindling taste tensions and spiritual bigotry, a bequest that has unluckily worsened nether consequent governments,” helium added.

He besides revisited Jonathan’s overseas argumentation record, faulting Nigeria’s determination successful 2011 to interruption ranks with the African Union and enactment NATO’s involution successful Libya.

He described the determination arsenic a “strategic blunder” that destabilized the Sahel and aggravated insecurity crossed Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, and different West African countries.

On home governance, the GHSM person insisted that Jonathan inactive has questions to reply connected corruption allegations that trailed his administration, peculiarly the infamous Dasukigate arms procurement scandal.

Hamzat, however, affirmed that the PDP remains a antiauthoritarian level wherever nary aspirant, including erstwhile presidents, should expect automatic endorsement.

“If President Jonathan desires a instrumentality to Aso Rock, helium indispensable beryllium acceptable to quadrate up with nationally unifying aspirants specified arsenic Dr. Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim successful an unfastened and transparent primary,” Hamzat declared.

He maintained that Nigerians merit caller enactment and a caller imaginativeness to tackle the nation’s challenges, insisting that “the lone mode guardant is forward, not backward.”

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