2015: Why Northern PDP Govs Hit Jonathan – Aliyu

Some northern Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governors worked against President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 presidential election because he supposedly reneged on an agreement not to contest the election, former Governor Babangida Aliyu has said.

Aliyu who was chairman of the Northern Governors Forum at that time said that his position made it incumbent on him to work against Jonathan in that election.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that Aliyu was recently suspended by a tendency in the PDP in Chachanga Local Government Area of Niger.

Aliyu who explained himself in a statement on Friday said:

“Following the sudden passage of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on May 5th, 2010, the leadership of the then governing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) along with the state governors under the flagship of the party had series of meetings on the presidency and the future of our great party.

“All the governors in the North under the PDP supported the then Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to complete the remaining years of Yar’Adua’s tenure and to contest the next presidential election as a sole candidate of our great party,” he said of the resolve of the Northern PDP governors.

“However, midway, President Goodluck Jonathan insisted to run for the office in 2015 against the grain of our earlier agreement,” Aliyu said in a statement.

According to Dr. Aliyu some of the Northern PDP governors as such resolved to fight Dr. Jonathan’s quest on the claim that his success would have undermined the North.

“On that premise, we opposed Jonathan. But all along, Goodluck Jonathan had enjoyed every support from the governors in the north and the entire region.

“As chairman of the 19 Northern States Governors Forum, the task was on my shoulders to voice out the position of the North which stood disadvantaged by the demise of Alhaji Musa Yar’Adua and the insistence that Jonathan should run for the office of president in 2015.”

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