Jonathan Still Our Member – PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has said erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan is inactive a subordinate of the party.

The nationalist publicity caput of PDP, Hon Debo Ologunagba, stated this connected Monday during a property briefing connected the party’s mentation for the November nationalist convention.

He was reacting to a assertion by erstwhile curate of accusation and PDP leader, Prof Jerry Gana, that Jonathan volition contention and triumph the 2027 statesmanlike predetermination connected PDP’s platform.

Jonathan, who is being courted by the PDP, has seldom attended PDP events since 2016 erstwhile the enactment slumped into a station 2015 predetermination crisis.

When asked astir Gana’s claim, Ologunagba said, “I don’t talk for Professor Jerry Gana. People tin explicit their opinion. But I volition stress this; successful this party, arsenic we are today, President Jonathan is simply a member, helium has not said he’s not a member.”

Ologunagba nevertheless said the enactment has eminently qualified Nigerians, peculiarly astatine the governors level, who person done good and tin get the enactment of Nigerians to replicate the aforesaid successful the country.

“I invitation you to person a adjacent reappraisal mechanics betwixt PDP states and the APC states. This is the speech we should beryllium having for the Nigerian radical to look astatine PDP and spot the array of qualified radical that are there.

“So, I don’t talk for President Jonathan. I don’t talk for Jerry Gana, with each owed respect. But our enactment is focused connected our normal and erstwhile we get to that bridge, we’ll transverse it. Those should beryllium semantics,” helium said.

The PDP spokesperson besides dispelled claims of a rift wrong enactment implicit congresses held successful Cross Rivers State

He was reacting to contradicting letters by the PDP nationalist chairman, Illiya Damagum and nationalist secretary, Samuel Anyanwu, to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) connected the holding of congresses.

Ologunagba said, “Let maine archer you this clearly. There is nary situation here. I tin archer you boldly the NWC is agreed connected this. And we each hold that it should beryllium postponed for reasons I’ve stated before.

“If determination are letters, similar you said, the assemblage that controls this enactment successful presumption of absorption is the National Working Committee. Neither of the officers , it is the body. And the assemblage sat and decided overwhelmingly, the bulk voted for that due to the fact that of the reasons I’ve mentioned earlier.

“So if determination are letters that you’re talking astir exist, that missive cannot beryllium supra the determination communicated by the NWC.

“So I’m not going to springiness you excessively overmuch unit going to that due to the fact that the important connection is that nary Congress took spot there. Like I said, it’s a hallucination. I mean, if you spell to a carnival and you get into the temper of carnival, what bash you do?You hallucinate erstwhile you’re sleeping,” helium said.

…No Automatic Ticket For Him In PDP, Gbenga-Hashim Group Replies Gana

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.

The radical stressed that PDP delegates astatine the nationalist normal volition prime the party’s flagbearer not a fewer enactment stalwarts.

Reacting to remarks credited to Professor Jerry Gana suggesting Jonathan’s imaginable comeback connected the PDP platform, the GHSM nationalist 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, Professor 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.

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