Any Party That Fields Jonathan As Its Candidate Will Lose

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is all out against President Goodluck Jonathan and his party, the PDP as they strategize on how to wrest power from the ruling party come 2015.

“Fielding President Jonathan will be disastrous and it would amount to political suicide. The PDP itself also knows that it would be a double jeopardy if it fields the President in 2015. 

“This is because, having lost the moral ground to face the electorate in 2015, the performance of the President since the past years is even appalling.”

On Wednesday both parties continued their war of words over the suitability of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan for the presidential election.

While the APC believes that fielding Jonathan as a candidate would be suicidal for any party, the Presidency and the PDP argued that he remains the best to win a presidential election in the country at present.

The latest verbal war started after Tuesday’s invitation to the President by APC National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, to join the newly formed political party if he is fed up with the crises in PDP.

Akande had said, “We (the APC) don’t even close our door to the PDP. If Jonathan is tired of the crises in the PDP, he is welcome in the APC.”

The Presidency however reacted immediately to the invitation, saying it was an acknowledgment by the APC of Jonathan’s sterling leadership qualities.

But in a chat with Punch, the Interim National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was bad that the Presidency did not read the statement credited to Akande before reacting.

According to Lai Mohammed, “When we say the man (Jonathan) should come and join us, we mean that he should come and see how to run a crisis-free party. But unfortunately, his handlers like himself, are unable to read between the lines."