Dr. Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor and the Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2023, has urged Former President Goodluck Jonathan not to heed calls to contest for the Presidency in 2027.
Adediran, the Lead Visioner of the Lagos4Lagos Movement, gave this advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
He predicted that Jonathan would be taking a “political risk” by contesting, arguing that he would be “reduced to a minnow” by President Bola Tinubu at the polls.
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Adediran urged Jonathan to stay in retirement, saying those encouraging him to run against Tinubu were “deceiving him.”
He described Tinubu as “a master in the game of politics,” whom he predicted cannot be defeated by Jonathan or any other figure in 2027.
Adediran dismissed the idea that Jonathan’s popularity and experience made him a formidable challenger to Tinubu, contrasting the two politicians’ paths to power:“I disagree with people calling on Jonathan to re-contest, people saying Jonathan is the only person who can challenge Tinubu, citing his popularity and experience.”
“It was this same man (Tinubu) that defeated him (Jonathan) from the outside. So, they are not the same.”
He suggested that Jonathan’s ascension was accidental compared to Tinubu’s hard-fought victory:“If you accidentally found yourself at the Aso Villa as President, it is different from somebody who gave his all to get there.”
“Such a man cannot be put side by side with somebody who just slept and woke up and found himself in the seat of the President,” he said.
Adediran concluded that it would “amount to a waste of time” for Jonathan to attempt to dislodge Tinubu in 2027, given that Tinubu’s personality, popularity, and experience were “intimidating.”
He urged Jonathan to listen to his wife, Patience, who had also urged him not to contest, to avoid “a humiliating defeat” in 2027.
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