2015: Jonathan’s campaign posters resurface in Abuja
The perceived second term ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan dominated discussions among Abuja residents yesterday as his campaign posters for the 2015 presidential elections adorned strategic locations of the city. Though Jonathan had made half-hearted denial of his ambition for another term in office, the body language of the president and his loyalists clearly shows that he was preparing to run in the 2015 general elections.
His posters were conspicuously placed at the twin entrances into the Presidential Villa popularly known as the Three-Arms zone, housing the Supreme Court, National Assembly, Court of Appeal and the Federal Secretariat. They were also pasted at the city gate along the airport road. Printed on April 30, 2013, the posters read: “Jonathan for 2015, giving power to the people, quietly succeeding where others have failed.”
The president’s second term ambition has continued to create tension within the polity despite several presidential statements assuring that Jonathan will only take a decision on whether to contest or not in 2014. The controversy was further deepened recently when Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger State revealed that President Jonathan had an agreement with the governors to run for a single term. But in a swift reaction to the revelation,
Ijaw leader and self-acclaimed godfather to President Jonathan, Chief Edwin Clark, in a letter to the Northern Governors’ Forum, urged them to forget about any agreement reached with them by the president, declaring that the ruling PDP will “impose” Jonathan as the party’s sole presidential candidate for the 2015 election. Clark, in a letter addressed to the Governor Aliyu who doubles as Chairman of Northern Governors’ Forum dated 12th March, 2013, said that the president can no longer keep to the agreement since the northern states had breached it during the 2011 presidential elections by voting for the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari. He warned that people of the South-south region will not fold their arms and allow a section of the country intimidate President Jonathan over the 2015 elections.
Source: The Sun
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