Former Transport and Aviation Minister and chieftain of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said that
President Goodluck Jonathan is free to re-contest in the 2015 presidential
election, if he so wishes, in line with the constitution of the country, which
allows the state governor and the president a two-term tenure of eight years,
declaring that “President Jonathan is just running his first term tenure
of four years.”
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said that
President Goodluck Jonathan is free to re-contest in the 2015 presidential
election, if he so wishes, in line with the constitution of the country, which
allows the state governor and the president a two-term tenure of eight years,
declaring that “President Jonathan is just running his first term tenure
of four years.”
Speaking with Sunday Tribune, during an interview, Chief
Babatope described those saying President Jonathan was no longer eligible to
contest the presidency in 2015 under the pretext that he completed the
tenure of the late President Musa Yar’Adua as “jokers and jesters” who were
ignorant of the law of the land.
Just as he declared that the ongoing merger of the opposition
political parties would not last, he said “Nigerians should watch out. The so-
called merger by the opposition will soon collapse like a pack of cards.”
political parties would not last, he said “Nigerians should watch out. The so-
called merger by the opposition will soon collapse like a pack of cards.”
According to him, “the political parties forming the merger are
strange bed-fellows with different political outlooks, different political
philosophy and different political backgrounds. Apparently, the thing is not
going to work; I am so sorry for them, because it will not work.”
strange bed-fellows with different political outlooks, different political
philosophy and different political backgrounds. Apparently, the thing is not
going to work; I am so sorry for them, because it will not work.”
On the allegation that the South-West geopolitical zone had been
marginalised by the present administration in the scheme of things, Chief
Babatope said that it was not the making of President Jonathan since he
supported the zone to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives in
line with PDP zoning arrangement, which the South-West lost because of
the division among the PDP members in the House. .
marginalised by the present administration in the scheme of things, Chief
Babatope said that it was not the making of President Jonathan since he
supported the zone to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives in
line with PDP zoning arrangement, which the South-West lost because of
the division among the PDP members in the House. .
He, however, assured that President Jonathan as a listening leader
had already recognised this anomaly and was addressing it with all seriousness
in order put the all important zone in its rightful position in the scheme of
things.
had already recognised this anomaly and was addressing it with all seriousness
in order put the all important zone in its rightful position in the scheme of
things.
Source: Tribune
