Shehu Sani advised Jonathan not to fight for the 2027 election

Former Federal Parliament member Shehu Sani has advised former President of Goodluck Jonathan not to seek the return of the President in the 2027 general election, on the grounds that the political landscape has changed significantly since his term of office.

Speaking in the Channels television week political program, Sani said the people’s Democratic Party (PDP), under his platform, Jonathan won the 2011 Presidential Election, no longer had the unity or structure he had ever had.

“Every time there is an election, Jonathan’s name appears, but that is his will to compete. However, I advise him not to do that. The reason is very simple: the PDP he used to know is not PDP now,” said Sani. “PDP in the Southwest supports the President. Some party members are in the coalition. So, not the party he used to know, and he could not waste his time.”

Jonathan, who served as the representative of the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, served after Yar’adua’s death in 2010. He was later elected president in 2011 but lost the offer of re -election for Muhammadu Buhari from all Congress years (APC) in 2015. Although the constitutional served to serve one more year.

Speculation surrounding the potential for return remains, especially given the debate about zoning, the prospect of one-frame southern presidency, and the emergence of a new opposition coalition led by the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

Sani, who represented Kaduna Central in the 8th National Assembly, also burdened the coalition, rejecting it as a lack of ideological differences from the decisions of all progressions Congress (APC).

“We are in democracy, and it is in the rights and ambitions of our democratic experiments to have opposition that will provide alternatives. But if only the cause of their power is to remove tinubu without providing any alternative for government and its style, then they do not have an agenda,” he said.

According to him, people who drive the coalition share policies and values that are the same as the current administration. “People who form coalitions today are not ideologically and philosophically different from the programs demanded by the Tinubu administration,” he added.

“This is not like we have a marxist and capitalist or neo-liberal and conservative. During their campaigns and in their policies, you can see liberal values of devaluation, the removal of subsidies, and such steps.”