As speculations continue on former President Goodluck Jonathan’s eligibility for the 2027 presidential election, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed Jerry Gana’s claim that Jonathan will contest on the party’s platform.
Debo Ologuagba, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, while reacting to the claim, noted that the former President has declared his intention to contest the election
” I don’t speak for Professor Jerry Gana. People can express their opinion. But I will emphasise this. In this party, as we are today, President Jonathan is a member; he has not said he’s not a member.
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” But I can tell you, today, that this party has eminently qualified Nigerians, particularly at the governors’ level, who have done exceedingly well, that Nigeria can tap on that and say, step up the place and do the right thing, because their performances in their state show their capacity, which is actually the DNA of the PDP.
” I invite you to have a peer review mechanism between PDP states and the APC states. This is the conversation we should be having for the Nigerian people to look at PDP and see the array of qualified people that are there.
” So, I don’t speak for President Jonathan. I don’t speak for Jerry Gana, with all due respect. But our party is focused on our convention.and when we get to that bridge, we’ll cross it. Those should be semantics”
Recall that Gana had said while speaking to newsmen in Mina, Niger State, that former President Jonathan will contest the 2027 presidential election on the party’s platform.
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Jonathan, who was the President from 2010 to 2015, on the platform of the party, was defeated by the late former President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2015 election.
Although Jonathan is yet to make his intentions public, he has in recent times engaged in high-level consultations.
He was sighted at the residence of David Mark, the African Democratic Congress, ADC, national Chairman in Abuja.
