‘A Specter Haunts Nigerian Politics’, Udenta Hints At Ex-President Jonathan’s Comeback

A caller question of uncertainty is rippling done Nigeria’s governmental scenery arsenic speculations turn implicit a imaginable instrumentality of erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan to progressive politics.

Prof. Udenta Udenta, governmental strategist and founding nationalist caput of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), warned that the ‘specter’ of Jonathan’s imaginable comeback was already unsettling the country’s ruling elite. He made this known during an interrogation connected Arise News Channel’s meal programme – The Morning Show – connected Tuesday.

“Somehow, for immoderate reasons, a specter is haunting the Nigerian governmental space. That specter is overmuch much acute wrong the emergence of a hegemonic powerfulness bloc,” Udenta declared. “This powerfulness bloc is composed of apical members of the parliament, statesmanlike powerfulness brokers, including noisy aides of the president, distracted ministers, and others with dubious agendas.”

According to him, this specter was nary different than erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan’s imaginable bid for the presidency successful the 2027 wide election.

“That specter is Goodluck Jonathan’s coming,” helium said. “You volition callback that somewhat much than 10 years ago, the historical infinitesimal erstwhile erstwhile President Jonathan picked his telephone and made a telephone to the precocious erstwhile President Muhammadu Buhari: ‘I lost, you won, congratulations,’ acceptable a code for a caller direction, a caller speech for ideology and its consolidation successful Africa — not conscionable Nigeria. It was the brightest infinitesimal of the reawakening of antiauthoritarian sensibilities and consciousness.”

Udenta noted that Jonathan’s concession successful 2015 predetermination elevated him arsenic a planetary statesman and 1 of Africa’s starring antiauthoritarian figures.

“Ten years down the line, arsenic a planetary statesman and a starring African, the quality is present down the enactment that erstwhile President Jonathan whitethorn contention for election, adjacent though helium has not spoken. That’s wherefore the fertile of the powerfulness brokers are frightened, and it is understandable wherefore determination is disorder successful their ranks,” Udenta explained.

Though Jonathan has not confirmed immoderate caller changeable astatine governmental office, reports person suggested that immoderate parties person asked the erstwhile president to contention for the 2027 election.