A former Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, has advised ex-President Goodluck Jonathan against contesting the 2027 presidential election.
He recently warned that the political landscape is no longer what it used to be.
Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, Shehu shared that the Peoples Democratic Party, which Jonathan rode to victory with in 2011, is no longer the force it once was.
According to him, PDP is now clearly fragmented and weakened, and the fact that some prominent members of the party switched to the coalition would make any presidential ambition a waste of time for GEJ.
He stated that Jonathan’s name regularly comes up during elections, but it is never his own wish most times.
“Each time there is an election, the name of Jonathan comes up, but it is his volition to contest, but I advise him not to do that. The reason is very simple: the PDP he used to know is not the PDP now.
The PDP in the South-West is endorsing the president. Some members of the party are in the coalition. So, it is the party he used to know, so he shouldn’t waste his time,” he said.
Shehu further rubbished the strength of the emerging coalition, emphasising that its members do not have the required ideological depth to succeed.
He concluded by saying that removing Tinubu will never be the solution if the coalition cannot provide a suitable alternative governance.
“We are in a democracy, and it is within the right and ambit of our democratic experiment or law to have an opposition that will give an alternative, but if their only cause for power is to remove Tinubu without providing any alternative to governance and his style, then, they have no agenda.
The people that constitute the coalition today are not ideologically and philosophically different from the programmes which the Tinubu administration is prosecuting. So, it’s not like we have a Marxist and a Capitalist or a Neo-Liberal and a Conservative.
During their campaigns and in their dear lives, you can see those liberal values of devaluation and removal of subsidy and some other party,” he added.
