Oshiomhole to Jonathan: Don’t Ruin Your Legacy by Contesting 2027 Election

A former Governor of Edo State, South-South Nigeria, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, has praised Jonathan’s current status saying it is not easy to be defeated in an election and subsequently remained relevant in the scheme of things as Jonathan.Oshiomhole stated this while fielding questions on Channels Television’s Sunday PoliticsPolitics, monitored in Jos Plateau state by Nigerian Kicker.

“I sympathize with Jonathan,” Oshiomhole said.Senator Oshiomhole, however, advised former President Goodluck Jonathan to maintain “this legacy by not giving in to pressure to contest the 2027 presidential election.”

According to Oshiomhole, only Jonathan’s enemy wanted him to throw his hat in the ring.He said, if the former President contest he would be defeated in 2027 by the All Progressives Congress, APC adding that the PDP was no more the same.“Where is he go to start from?”, he asked rhetorically.“How can Jonathan be a threat? We defeated him before, when PDP was truly PDP. If a man had PDP at its peak, I think it is only his enemies that will push him into the ring.“That may not be helpful to him. I think he has managed to demonstrate that out of power you can be relevant and really at peace.“If I will be able to advise him, I will say ‘Sir, maintain this status’. If I were him I will spend the rest of my life trying to find relevance, which he has already found”, he added.

Recall that Jonathan was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but lost the 2015 presidential election to late President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC.