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Why northern PDP govs worked against Jonathan in 2015 –Ex-gov Aliyu The Punch Published 1:32 am A former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, on Friday revealed why northern governors of the Peoples Democratic Party worked against the re-election of former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015. He said they worked against Jonathan’s re-election because he reneged on an agreement not to seek a second term. Aliyu said this in a statement he signed titled, ‘Why We Opposed Jonathan’s Second Term Bid –Babangida Aliyu.’ He was reacting to his purported suspension by t...

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The PDP in the LGA had said Aliyu was suspended for anti-party activities, including working against Jonathan in 2015. Jonathan, the presidential candidate of the PDP in the election lost to President Muhammadu Buhari. He is the first incumbent Nigerian president to lose an election. But Aliyu, a former chairman of the Northern Governors Forum, said the north would have lost out completely if Jonathan got reelected. He said after northern governors supported Jonathan to complete the tenure of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the former president was still allowed to contest in 2011. “F...

In 2019, efforts by the party to return to power yielded no result as Buhari defeated its candidate, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar. The BoT meeting, according to a communique signed by its secretary, Senator Adolphus Wabara, was to stabilise and restrategise for the party to return to power in 2023. Wabara, who is a former Senate president, said the emergency meeting was timely and necessary due to the heightened political and economic tensions in the country. The BoT members, after reviewing the progress so far made in reconciling various aggrieved persons in the party, will consult w...

Mr Jonathan also says the universities should serve as hubs for technological innovation.