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Anthony Ufoh
Senator Shehu Sani, a former senator who represented Kaduna Central in the National Assembly, has advised former president, Goodluck Jonathan, against in contesting the presidential election in 2027, warning that the political landscape is no longer what they used to be.
There have been speculations about Jonathan’s return to the political circle in recent period in the light of ongoing debates about a one-term Southern presidency and the emergence of a new opposition coalition floated by the African Democratic Congress.
Sani, who spoke on a programme on Channels Television, Politics Today, said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is now fragmented and weak at the moment.
He said, “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 concluded.
Sani further dismissed the strength of the emerging coalition, stressing that its members lack ideological depth and are not distinct from President Bola Tinubu’s political philosophy.
“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.