{"id":914558,"date":"2022-01-08T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/08\/elusive-answers-goodluck-gave-2-times-he-was-asked-if-hell-contest-for-2023-presidency\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T13:43:07","slug":"elusive-answers-goodluck-gave-2-times-he-was-asked-if-hell-contest-for-2023-presidency-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/elusive-answers-goodluck-gave-2-times-he-was-asked-if-hell-contest-for-2023-presidency-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elusive Answers Goodluck Gave 2 Times He was Asked If He&#8217;ll Contest For 2023 Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/7229f43fb3834bd5b3db35ec7063d7c5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015 may not end soon as Dr Jonathan has failed to give a definite position on his rumoured ambition. Though he has been questioned several times to define his intentions, he has refused to give a coherent answer over his stance on his rumoured presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Few months back when he led a delegation of politicians from Bayelsa on a condolence visit to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa at Government House, Asaba, over the demise of his father, Sir Okorie Okowa, Goodluck was asked if he&#8217;ll contest for 2023 presidency but he failed to answer coherently. He didn&#8217;t give a &#8216;Yes or No&#8217; answer to satisfy people&#8217;s curiosity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/418dffb8bada4d52b154541402896036\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Goodluck said, <strong>&#8220;On the rumour of my interest in the 2023 presidential election, it is mere speculation. I will continue to serve God, humanity, Africa and the world to the best of his ability and with all sense of commitment and sincerity.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Again, some time last month during his brief session with reporters on Friday after attending an event organised by the Commonwealth Community Choir in Abuja, the same question was thrown to him, but he failed to give a well defined answer. \u201cIt<strong> is too early to talk about that.\u201d <\/strong>He said. <\/p>\n<p>This made it the second time he refused to give a &#8216;Yes or No&#8217; to the question that is being thrown to him over his rumoured presidential ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Ikechukwu Eze, the spokesperson for former President Goodluck Jonathan, described insinuations that Jonathan would defect from the Peoples Democratic Party to the ruling All Progressives Congress and run for president in 2023 as mere rumours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cd21990dd18f42b3ba24400a14a27361\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On this note, Goodluck Jonathan&#8217;s rumoured intention to run for the 2023 presidency has continued to remain ambiguous to Nigerians, following his elusive answers that trails the questions that seek clarity to his rumoured presidential ambition<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your best advice to Goodluck about his rumoured presidential ambition? Do you wish he joins the race.<\/p>\n<p>Please don&#8217;t forget to LIKE and SHARE.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: ZubbyDWriter (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAsaba<br \/>\nBayelsa<br \/>\nGoodluck<br \/>\nJonathan<br \/>\nOkorie Okowa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015 may not end soon as Dr Jonathan has failed to give a definite position on his rumoured ambition. Though he has been questioned several times to define his intentions, he has refused to give a coherent answer over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}