By Aiyeku Timothy
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Thursday expressed confidence that former President Goodluck Jonathan will not be joining the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
This was in reaction to a visit by some APC governors and chieftains to the Abuja residence of the former president last month.
The visit raised suspicion that the APC were luring Jonathan, who contested in the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections on the platform of the PDP to run in the 2023 general elections under their party.
PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, dismissed such reports, while reacting also, to the claim by Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi, that more opposition politicians would join the ruling APC, following his defection from the PDP
The PDP spokesperson said the party was not bothered by Umahi’s defection as well as the recent visit by the APC chieftains to Jonathan’s Abuja residence.
His words “Why should we be bothered about people who are working on innuendos and are claiming they are working. Where is the action?
“Because some governors went to visit (former) President Goodluck Jonathan on his birthday, then, it is concluded that he has joined APC? For me, there are many things I cannot say in the public but I want to assure Nigerians that former President Goodluck Jonathan is politically savvy enough to know he has no space in the All Progressives Congress.”
Jonathan was elected president in 2011 and later lost to Muhammadu Buhari of the APC in 2015. There are claims that he is still eligible to run for another single term of four years in office.
