Senator Shehu Sani, a former congressman from Kaduna Central, cautioned former President Goodluck Jonathan from running for president in 2027, stating that the political climate has changed.
Political circles have been speculating about Jonathan’s return ever since the African Democratic Congress launched a new opposition coalition and discussions on a one-term Southern presidency have continued.
On Sunday Politics on Channels Television, Sani made the case that the Peoples Democratic Party, which Jonathan led to victory in 2011, is today weak and dispersed.
In the South-West, the PDP is supporting the president. There are some party members in the coalition. He said, “He shouldn’t waste his time because it’s the party he used to know.”
Sani also downplayed the power of the new coalition, emphasizing that its members are not ideologically different from President Bola Tinubu’s political stance and lack depth.
“An opposition that will offer an alternative is allowed by our democratic experiment or law, and we are in a democracy. However, if their sole goal is to overthrow Tinubu without offering any alternatives to his governance or style, then they have no agenda.”
“The coalition’s current members have no ideological or philosophical differences with the policies being implemented by the Tinubu administration. Therefore, it’s not as if we have a conservative and a neo-liberal or a capitalist and a Marxist.
“You can see those liberal values of devaluation and removal of subsidy and some other party during their campaigns and in their personal lives,” he continued.
