We Don't Trust Goodluck Jonathan - Northern Leaders

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We Don't Trust Goodluck Jonathan - Northern Leaders

Leaders from the Northern part of Nigeria have expressed serious doubts about the willingness of President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil his promise not to contest the 2015 presidential election.

The leaders, under the aegis of the Coalition of Northern Leaders, CNL, said every action of the President indicated that he would run for a second term.

Spokesman of the group, Dr. Junaid Mohammad, who spoke to Punch in Abuja, said the President’s recent actions and inactions did not inspire confidence.

Dr. Mohammed said while Jonathan had warned ministers and party members to stop campaigning for 2015, he had not passed a similar warning to his kinsmen who were asking him to run for a second term.

Dr. Mohammed said, “The President has refused to caution people like Asari Dokubo, who revealed that he (Jonathan) would run for a second term. Now, he (the President) is busy empowering his people with juicy appointments. He has put his Niger Delta kinsman at the helm of affairs of the Ministry of Niger Delta.

“Also, his kinswoman is in charge of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, (Deziani Allison-Madueke); the lady at the helm of affairs in the Ministry of Land is also from his constituency (Mrs. Amma Pepple).

“The President has also single-handedly handed over the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency to the former militants from his region (Mr. Tompolo).

“He has also pushed away the former Governor of his home state, Chief Timipre Sylva out of the road for his boy (Mr. Henry Dickson) and the allocation formula is favourable to him and his people."

But of all the above complaints, the CNL is more concerned about the politics of 2015. Dr. Mohammed insisted that President Jonathan must “abide by what he told the world concerning 2015. Why would he ask people not to talk about 2015 when he has refused to caution those promoting his own ambition?”

The CNL is a pressure group comprising the North’s finest crop of academics, professionals and businessmen.

You may which to know that President Jonathan had during a foreign trip in January 2011, promised that he would “not be running for election” in 2015.