Why North Should Vote for Jonathan - Vanguard

 

It would be in the best interest of Northern political elites to support President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term bid in 2015 to ensure that the affirmative zoning by the PDP in 2019 is without equivocation. This is to ensure stability in Nigeria by strengthening a tradition of peaceful transition and democratic consolidation. The North cannot be blamed for insisting on central power after eight years of democratic leadership by General Olusegun Obasanjo, a period in which most Northern elites ceded political competition for central power to the South West, and consequently the South.

However, upon retrospection, given the existing constitutional laws of Nigeria and the equity expectations of the PDP zoning guidelines, one cannot also wholly blame the South-South and President Jonathan for insisting upon his right under the Constitution to run for the presidency after the unfortunate demise of President Umaru Yar’Adua. Much has occurred in that time, which given the lengthy political collaborations of the North and the South-South prior to that event, was quite unfortunate.

In any event, in 2015, key Northern members of the PDP should mobilise support for President Jonathan for a second term in the presidency because, having served a first term, it will be better for Northern political establishment to allow Jonathan a second term for key reasons that are guided by the enlightened self-interest of the Northern people.

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