The All Progressives Congress (APC) has reacted to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) inviting former President Goodluck Jonathan to run for president in the 2027 presidential election on its platform.
Naija News reports that PDP National Publicity Deputy Secretary General Ibrahim Abdullahi recently said the party is eagerly awaiting Mr Jonathan’s return for a second term.
Abdullahi noted that it would be unfortunate if Jonathan chose another party to run for president.
But in an interview with Punch, APC’s national communications director, Bala Ibrahim, said the former president would face further defeat if he heeded the call.
According to him, the APC is not nervous about the former president’s registration for the 2027 election, stressing that Goodluck Jonathan’s 10 will not defeat President Bola Tinubu.
He said, “The APC should not be nervous if there are plans to bring former President Goodluck Jonathan into the race.When he was in power, the APC defeated him. Beating him when you’re losing will be a walkover.
“It is something that cannot even give the party sleepless nights. So whoever is making this change, if their intention is to scare the APC, they need to go back to the drawing board and think again. I think there is. Don’t worry.
“But I think it’s too early to talk about 2027. After all, less than 40 percent of the mandate given to the president under the APC has yet to be fulfilled.” Before thinking about crossing the river Let’s go to the river. However, even if they bring in 10 former President Jonathan, they will not be able to defeat APC in the current situation.
“The APC defeated Goodluck Jonathan when the president was the leader of the party. Now that Mr. Tinubu is the president and the leader of the party, the APC will defeat him again. What matters is that he is a cult follower of Mr. Buhari. No. It’s a party arrangement. Mr. Buhari was not contesting his eligibility to run as an independent.”
Recall that in 2015, Jonathan ran on a PDP platform but lost the presidential election to APC flagbearer Muhammadu Buhari.
Buhari received 15,424,921 votes, demoting the former president who received 12,853,162 votes to second place.
This election marked the first time in Nigeria that a sitting president lost re-election.
