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On Friday, Aliyu said PDP governors in northern states opposed Jonathan’s bid for a second term because he reneged on their agreement not to seek another tenure.
“Since this was against the grain of our earlier agreement in the party, and which we the governors in the north felt the North would have been shortchanged if Jonathan had succeeded, we rose stoutly to insist on the agreement we all had,” he had said.
Aliyu’s claim had since elicited reactions with Jonah Jang, former governor of Plateau
refuting the claimand that he was not part of northern PDP governors that worked against Jonathan.
I Had No Agreement With Northern PDP Governors, Jonathan Blast Aliyu Posted by Nwa DiokpaFeatured, Latest News, News Across Nigeria Sunday, April 18th, 2021
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former President Goodluck Jonathan has berated former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, saying that his claim that northern People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governors worked against him in the 2015 elections.
African Examiner writes that on Friday Aliyu had stated that PDP governors in northern states opposed Jonathan’s bid for a second term since he reneged on their agreement not to seek another tenure.
“Since this was against the grain of our earlier agreement in the party, and which we the governors in the north felt the North would have been shortchanged if Jonathan had succeeded, we rose stoutly to insist on the agreement we all had,” he had said.
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said the ballot by the electorate and not the judiciary should determine the winners of elections in the country. He said this on Monday in Abuja, when he visited the digital pan-African news network, the TOS TV network, led by Ms. Osasu Igbinedion. “Ballot papers should be the basis of […]
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Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday during a courtesy visit to TOS Television Network, Jonathan said when there are discrepancies in the electoral process, the court is supposed to order a rerun and not declare a winner.
The former president also said the inducement of voters by politicians in the country has made elections very expensive.
He called for stiffer punishment for people who induce voters with gifts and cash.
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“Ballot papers should be the basis of selecting political office holders. If it is the judiciary that should select them, then we are not yet there,” Jonathan said.