2027: Bring back Atiku, Obi, sack Wike – Jonathan’s condition to PDP

The former President, Goodluck Jonathan is reported to have given the Peoples Democratic Party governors stringent conditions that will make him run for presidency come 2027.

Sources close to the party informed our correspondent that a team of PDP Governors led by Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed met with Jonathan to convince him to come out to contest presidential election come 2027

The governors was said to have met Jonathan in Gambia last week and offered him the party ticket to run.

But, to their surprise, Jonathan gave them stringent conditions to accept the ticket.

The conditions are: They must bring back H.E. Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi to the party and expel Wike and all his boys.

Hearing this they agreed to meet again yesterday to give him feedback, but up till no response from the Governors.

There had been series of speculations about Jonathan coming out to run come 2027, just two days an ally of the former President said he will be one of the leading candidates to contest against incumbent Bola Tinubu.

The ally, who is also in the People Democratic Party, PDP, as Jonathan, told Vanguard that the plan to draft the former President to contest on PDP’s platform had gone far, and that he had accepted, adding that the former president was going into the race to find ways of addressing Nigeria’s rising poverty, hardship and the general suffering that had gripped the citizenry in recent years.

The source said the project to bring back Jonathan to reposition Nigeria was being driven by key Nigerian leaders and elders, who believed the former president stabilised the country and its economy within the six years of his administration..

Jonathan’s ally said the Otuoke-born politician had already met behind the scene with some top leaders within and outside the PDP to consult them and seek their support for the 2027 presidential race.

According to the politician, Jonathan met with former Nigerian military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, retd., last weekend in his Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger State, and briefed him on his desire to run for one term in 2027.

Although the source did not say what General IBB’s response to Jonathan was, he, however, expressed optimism that the idea had been properly sold to the north.