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2027: Jonathan ready to run again, close ally confirms

2027: Jonathan ready to run again, close ally confirms

Rédaction Africa Links 24 with Idowu Bankole
Published on 2025-08-07 00:28:23

By Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor, Clifford Ndujihe, Dapo Akinrefon, Ikechukwu Nnochiri, Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo & Luminous Jannamike

Nigeria’s former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, will be one of the leading candidates to confront incumbent President Bola Tinubu, in the 2027 presidential poll, a close ally of the Bayelsa-born politician confirmed to Vanguard yesterday.

The ally, who is also in the People Democratic Party, PDP, as Jonathan, told Vanguard that the plan to draft the former President to contest on PDP’s platform had gone far, and that he had accepted, adding that the former president was going into the race to find ways of addressing Nigeria’s rising poverty, hardship and the general suffering that had…

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