The former President, Goodluck Jonathan, has said that he can’t disclose whether he is going to declare to run 2023 presidential election as the process is ongoing.
The former number one citizen made this known on Friday while addressing the protesters who stormed his Abuja office.
The protesters stormed the Abuja private office of the former President in the early hours of Friday and urged him to declare for the 2023 presidential race.
A spokesman for the group, Mayor Samuel, who is also the convener of the Youth Compatriots of Nigeria said, “We were deceived and brainwashed by those who claimed they could do it in 2015.
“Now, we know better, under Jonathan the minimum wage could buy one or two bags of rice. What do we have today? We are begging President Jonathan to forgive us, we have realized our mistakes, and we want him back to complete what he started.
Responding to them, Jonathan asked Nigerian youths to show greater interest in the nation’s political process.
The former President said it was time for youths to take advantage of the Not Too Young To Run Act to participate actively in the electoral process.
He said he was aware that they were “here to ask me to declare,” but he said, “I cannot declare because some processes are still ongoing.”
“Yes you are calling me to come and declare for the next election, I cannot tell I’m declaring.
The political process is ongoing just watch out. The key role you must play is that Nigeria must get somebody that will carry young people along.”
Recall that the Nigerian Young Professionals in Diaspora, NYPD, yesterday gave Jonathan one week’s ultimatum to declare for the 2023 Presidential race or risk being sued.
The group which comprises Young Professionals in Diaspora is made up of Nigerians from all over the Country who are based in different countries.
The convener of the group, Arc. Oladipo Akande in a press release made available to newsmen via email from Los Angeles, United States Of America stated that the former helmsman needed to throw his hat into the ring without further delay.
Meanwhile, the campaign posters of the former President have flooded the national secretariat of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja.
The posters with a big picture of the former President in his South-South attire and a bowler-hat with the inscription” Goodluck Jonathan You Must Run” are occupying a conspicuous position on the wall of the party secretariat.
Also posters on the fence of many buildings, especially the uncompleted ones along Blantyre Street where the APC secretariat is located.
