Mr. President, I sent an email to you on March 21 2015 that I was making it home to ensure that General Buhari was not elected. In my thesis, I had noted that Mr. Buhari was not intellectually capable of leading a nation. He was hopelessly incapable of comprehending complex things in friendly interviews! Within minutes, you responded.
But as the Federal High Court, on Friday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, rules that you can run for president in 2023, I want to tell you loud and clear – DO NOT RUN. Nigeria does not need you again.
What I suggest, publicly, is that you find one of the emerging leaders and mentor him or her. The Nigeria you left in 2015 is not the nation we have today. And the leader we need to fix that 2023 Nigeria is different. I am your #1 fan but on this one, do not do it. Like I made my case against General Buhari, even you cannot save Nigeria at this point.
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The greatest challenge today is to get the youth to believe in Nigeria. They are fighting economic warfares, hopelessly. Your position is to build a ladder to get a new type of leader, in any party, to restore the nation and get them to believe.
As always, all respect to you. Do not run; you did not leave any bag in Aso Rock. Work to build for the future. God bless you, God bless President Buhari, and President Obasanjo, as three of you come together, and leave politics aside and work for the future of this nation. This is that moment because many things are fading daily!
The Federal High Court, on Friday, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, said former President Goodluck Jonathan can run for president in 2023.
The judge, Isa Dashen, while delivering a judgement, on Friday, held that Mr Jonathan’s right to vie for the presidency a second time cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.
There have been intense political debates over Mr Jonathan’s eligibility to run for the presidency a second time, after he was defeated at the polls in 2015 by the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, when Mr Jonathan sought to be reelected.
Joining the debate in April, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, said the former president cannot contest in the 2023 presidential election, citing constitutional provisions barring the ex-president from seeking re-election.
Mr Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said in a statement in response to growing calls on Mr Jonathan to throw his hat into the ring ahead of the 2023 election.
He said Mr Jonathan, who was Nigerian president between 2010 and 2015, would breach constitutional term limits of two terms of eight years if he runs for the presidency and wins again.
Mr Falana recalled that Mr Jonathan became the President of Nigeria in 2010 following the sudden death of President Umaru Yar’adua, and later contested and won the 2011 presidential election.
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I hope he listens, because it won’t be pleasant if he does otherwise, no questions, no excuses.
I spent three days upstairs in 2015, hoping against hope that the counting could favour him, but it didn’t happen; that was the moment his own pilgrimage in Aso Rock ended for me, there’s nothing like a comeback. Times have changed, and old things have passed away.
Tinubu partnered with Buhari to chase Jonathan away in 2015, and now they are coming up with possibility of Buhari partnering Jonathan to retire Tinubu? We are retiring all of them, they have all showed their hands and best judgments, which are subpar anyway. The joke is too much, it cannot pass.
Whoever Jonathan listens to should hold his right ear, I will still reserve my comment for now.