Jonathan as Tinubu’s toughest challenger, by Dele Sobowale

‘2027: Jonathan Weighs ADC Option Amid Comeback Reports’ – News Report, October 5, 2025.

“All governmental parties dice astatine past of swallowing their ain lies” – Dr John Arbuthnot, 1667-1735.

Former President Jonathan is the toughest hostile President Tinubu tin look successful 2027. The different starring contenders person superior problems deciding who volition beryllium statesmanlike oregon vice-presidential campaigner successful lawsuit they determine to articulation forces. Already, Obidients, surviving successful a fool’s paradise, and the supporters of Atiku, arsenic good arsenic Kwankwaso, are likewise self-deluded that they tin spell alone.

But, of each those experiencing governmental hallucination, those inactive clinging to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are the worst. They stubbornly instrumentality to a corpse called governmental party. They are the lone radical who are not alert that the enactment is dead. For reasons wide to me, the fewer radical near successful the PDP cannot travel to presumption with the information that their enactment is dead; that astir fractional of the radical present successful the All Progressives Congress, APC, were erstwhile their enactment chieftains – who are not prepared to permission certainty for uncertainty. Even if they privation to leap vessel and godforsaken APC, their astir apt adjacent destination is not PDP but ADC.

Jonathan, rather rightly, indispensable person sensed this and that is wherefore helium is gravitating towards the African Democratic Congress, ADC; to me, that is the wisest prime Jonathan tin make. And, helium mightiness conscionable beryllium the perfect campaigner for the caller party. Let maine number the ways Dr Goodluck Jonathan could make problems for the APC.

Economy successful 2015 and 2027

“Even God cannot alteration the past” – Agathon, 447-401 BC.

Were Nigerians amended disconnected successful 2015 than present and the foreseeable future? I asked respective 100 radical this question without disclosing wherefore and the reply was astonishing. Everybody said that they were acold amended disconnected successful 2015 than now. Furthermore, they person nary anticipation that things volition alteration sufficiently by 2027 to marque them consciousness better. Bearing successful caput that 2015 represented the debased constituent of the Jonathan administration, it is wide that Tinubu volition person a pugnacious clip convincing Nigerians that helium tin negociate the system amended than GOJ. All Jonathan has to bash is to assemble a ace squad of economical advisers and influencers to transportation his connection and helium marque mince nutrient of Tinubu. In reality, the facts enactment him. Tinubu mightiness claim, rather rightly, that helium inherited an system connected the brink of bankruptcy. But, the system astatine death’s doorway was handed to him by Buhari, the archetypal APC President – not Jonathan.

At immoderate rate, the large economical indices favour Jonathan. Here are a fewer to ponder. 

Irrespective of what the leaders of the APC mightiness accidental astir Jonathan, it is astir intolerable for them to contradict that mean Gross Domestic Product, GDP, was astir 5.5 per cent from 2010-2015. In fact, GDP maturation successful Jonathan’s worst afloat year, 2014, was acold amended than the mean for the 8 years of Buhari medication and 2 afloat years of Tinubu government. Exchange complaint was nether N200/US$1 erstwhile Jonathan near office; contiguous it is hovering astir N1,500/US$1. Because atom serves proxy for each different nutrient items, it is simply a information that atom was selling for astir N8, 000 per 50kg container successful 2014, it has risen to N60, 000 per 50kg bag. Petrol was astir N240 per litre; present it is ranging from N850 to N1, 200 per litre depending connected whether Dangote, NNPCL and PENGASSAN are not astatine war. There is nary request to database seriatim each the prices of commodities past and now. Those of america who lived done each the years and are blessed with bully memories retrieve however things were past and now.

Nigeria was decidedly not the poorness superior of the satellite successful 2015. That undesirable rubric was the effect of the APC ‘change’ agenda.

“Good government…has for its objects the extortion of each idiosyncratic wrong its attraction successful the top liberty accordant with the bully bid of society…’’ – US President Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908

Even connected insecurity, Jonathan has already admitted his nonaccomplishment regarding the kidnapping of Chibok girls – which remains a nationalist shameful calamity till today. But, helium tin besides rightly assertion that herdsmen impunity to transportation guns and perpetrate genocide nationwide was chartless during his tenure of office. In fact, helium mightiness besides beryllium capable to assertion that superior insecurity was constricted to definite areas successful the North, whereas, now, it is nationwide. In fact, immoderate types of transgression threa...