{"id":79783,"date":"2021-04-16T17:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=79783"},"modified":"2021-04-16T17:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:43:16","slug":"why-northern-governors-opposed-jonathans-2nd-term-bid-ex-gov-aliyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/why-northern-governors-opposed-jonathans-2nd-term-bid-ex-gov-aliyu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Northern Governors Opposed Jonathan\u2019s 2nd Term Bid \u2013 Ex-Gov Aliyu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Northern States Governors Forum under the leadership of former Governor Mu\u2019azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State rejected President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s second term bid in 2015 because the northern region would have lost out completely.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu, a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said after they had supported Jonathan to complete late president Umaru Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s tenure and contested in 2011, the former president insisted to run for the office in 2015 against the grain of their earlier agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the sudden passage of President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua 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 a series of meetings on the presidency and the future of our great party.<\/p>\n<p>All the governors in the North under the PDP supported the then Vice President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to complete the remaining years of Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s tenure and to contest the next presidential election as a sole candidate of our great party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, midway, President Goodluck Jonathan insisted on running for the office in 2015 against the grain of our earlier agreement,\u201d Aliyu said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu, who was reacting to comments that he worked against Jonathan\u2019s re-election in 2015, insisted it was not his decision but that of the northern governors forum, which he was then chairman.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu said that since Jonathan\u2019s quest to contest in 2015 was against an earlier agreement in the party, and which the governors in the North felt their region would been shortchanged if Jonathan had succeeded, they rose stoutly to insist on the enforcement of the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn that premise, we opposed Jonathan. But all along, Goodluck Jonathan had enjoyed every support from the governors in the north and the entire region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs 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\u2019Adua and the insistence that Jonathan should run for the office of president in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe acted in good spirit and argued our points based on principle and on the subsisting agreement we had with Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. That agreement was written and accepted by all,\u201d Aliyu said, adding that they didn\u2019t oppose Jonathan but were opposed to his insistence for a second term in office in beyond 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe North would have lost out completely,\u201d Aliyu said of what would have happened if Jonathan had succeeded in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is, therefore, wrong for anyone to erroneously say that I, Dr. Mu\u2019azu Babangida Aliyu had opposed Goodluck Jonathan,\u201d the former governor added<\/p>\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>The Northern States Governors Forum under the leadership of former Governor Mu\u2019azu Babangida Aliyu of Niger State rejected President Goodluck Jonathan\u2019s second term bid in 2015 because the northern region&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":79784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79783","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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