{"id":121215,"date":"2025-08-04T17:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121215"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:16:51","slug":"2027-northern-politicians-woo-jonathan-against-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/2027-northern-politicians-woo-jonathan-against-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Northern politicians woo Jonathan against Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1839538022031475224\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1839538022031475224-header\" class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Myke Agunwa, Abuja<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-f:1839538022031475224-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former presidential aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad has alleged that some politicians from the North are mounting pressure on former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest against President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential election.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Making the disclosure in his official X handle on Monday, Bashir stated that those pushing the former president claimed his candidacy will be easy to market in the North.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wrote, \u201cFrom all indications, there are ongoing subtle moves by certain political elements trying to convince former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest again in 2027.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey calculate that his candidacy will be easy to market in the North under the guise that he would only serve a single term.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut the troubling part is that this push is not rooted in what he would offer the North or the country at large, but merely in political convenience and power rotation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe North deserves more than being used as a political ladder.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmed said that the permutation is that Jonathan is the only politician from the South who can defeat Tinubu in 2027.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">You may recall that the wife of the ex-president, Patience Jonathan had earlier ruled out the possibility of her husband joining the 2027 presidential race.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mrs. Jonathan said rather than contest, her family would campaign for Tinubu\u2019s re-election because Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, supported Jonathan\u2019s 2011 presidential bid.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-941098229753258253ymail_android_signature\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Myke Agunwa, Abuja Former presidential aide to late President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad has alleged that some politicians from the North are mounting pressure on former&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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