Only Jonathan’s enemy wants him to contest 2027 election  —  Oshiomhole

Former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, has advised erstwhile President Goodluck Jonathan against yielding to unit to contention the 2027 statesmanlike election, informing that doing truthful would harm his legacy.

Speaking connected Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Oshiomhole said that lone those who bash not privation Jonathan good would promote him to instrumentality to the governmental arena, adding that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would easy decision him if helium chose to run.

“How tin Jonathan beryllium a threat? We defeated him earlier erstwhile PDP was genuinely PDP,” Oshiomhole said. 

“If a antheral had PDP astatine its best, astatine its peak, and helium was defeated, I deliberation lone his force volition propulsion him to spell into election.”

The erstwhile APC nationalist president advised Jonathan to sphere his estimation arsenic a statesman and debar a instrumentality that could erode the respect helium earned aft conceding decision successful 2015.

“If I were capable to counsel him, I volition say, Sir, support this status. You governed for 8 years, you don’t person to govern for nine,” Oshiomhole said. 

According to Oshiomhole, Jonathan “has managed to show that retired of power, you tin beryllium applicable and astatine peace.”

He praised Jonathan’s historical concession code successful 2015, describing it arsenic 1 of his astir admirable legacies. 

“Looking astatine however helium ascended to that office, if I were him, I volition walk the extremity of my beingness trying to find relevance, which helium has already found, and speaking due to the fact that that conceding defeat, and that is memorable punctuation astir my blood, sorry, humor of a Nigerian is not worthy my ambition, helium should conscionable let those legacies to be,” helium said.

Oshiomhole further argued that Jonathan’s governmental basal successful the South-South had weakened since his departure from office, making a comeback unrealistic. 

“We volition decision him if helium comes retired precise flatly due to the fact that present the South-South is nary longer PDP. So wherever is helium going to commencement from?” helium asked.

Jonathan, who was the campaigner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), mislaid the 2015 statesmanlike predetermination to the precocious Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

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