During an interview conducted by BBC, former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, was asked if Jonathan is still a member of the party, the ex-governor said, \u201cI doubt it; he has not been attending recent activities of our party.\u201d This is contained in a report published by the Daily<\/strong> Trust.\u00a0<\/p>\n Image Credits || Vanguard <\/p>\n In the past few months, the former president has been in the storm of media over the politicking that surrounds the 2023 presidential elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n He had raised suspicion last year when Governor of Yobe State, Mala Mai Buni led some Northern APC governors to his Abuja residence in a private visit!<\/p>\n Also, his continued romance with the ruling party and the good relationship shared with President Buhari has further fueled speculation of his secret defection to the All Progressive Congress, APC.\u00a0<\/p>\n As the 2023 presidential drew closer, the rumor of the purported defection thickened! He has been at the center of the permutation of the southern presidency being allegedly planned by some Northern caucus within the ruling party.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the various reports, the gimmick was to zone the party\u2019s ticket to the south amidst intensified clamor for the southern presidency. The plan was to allow Jonathan to finish up his 4-year second tenure so that the power could be returned to the North in 2017|<\/p>\n It would be recalled that governors Wike and Tambuwal had reacted to the alleged plot and advised the ex-president not to fall for the gimmick. Both and other PDP stakeholders had vowed not to support him if he runs for the presidency in the APC.\u00a0<\/p>\n Is Sule Lamido Right to have doubted Jonathan being a PDP member?<\/strong><\/p>\n Image Credits || Independent <\/p>\n Though a lot of speculations have been peddling around the former president over the politics of the 2023 election he has not officially denounced his membership from the PDP.\u00a0<\/p>\n Of course, Sule Lamido might have raised concerns just like other PDP members have doubted his loyalty to the party. This could be attributed to his continued silence by officially disregarding the peddled information.\u00a0<\/p>\n Also, Jonathan who has been a member of the PDP since 1999 has been absent from major activities of the party, the convention of the PDP where Senator Iyorchia Ayu was elected National Chairman.<\/p>\n Lamido might be right to his own opinion but the fact is, unless the former president categorically takes official position over his membership with the PDP, no one could vividly say he is not a member of the party.\u00a0<\/p>\n Content created and supplied by: eFactor (via Opera \n , . , . () , , , , , , , , . \/ , and\/or . , , and\/or , and\/or <\/span> During an interview conducted by BBC, former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, was asked if Jonathan is still a member of the party, the ex-governor said, \u201cI doubt it; he has not been attending recent activities of our party.\u201d This is contained in a report published by the Daily Trust.\u00a0 Image Credits || Vanguard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993229","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=993229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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