I witnessed Jonathan agreed to single term -Nasarawa ex-gov
A former Governor of Nasarawa State, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, verbally expressed on Thursday that he was present at a meeting where President Goodluck Jonathan concurred to accommodate a single term in office as a candidate of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.
The former governor who verbalized on a Channels Television interview, which was monitored by our correspondent in Abuja, verbally expressed that the meeting where the accedence was reached was held at the Conference Room of the office of the First Lady, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The acquiescent, he verbalized, was reached postmortem of former President Umaru Yar’Adua, who he verbally expressed was the candidate of the region afore his untimely death.
Adamu, who was then the Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the ruling party, verbally expressed that the meeting was additionally attended by virtually all the governors of the party and a former Governor of old Bendel State, Brig. Gen Samuel Ogbemudia(retd).
He verbalized, “I believe it is the right of every Nigerian within the Constitution of the federal Republic of Nigeria to run for the highest office in the land.
“I cannot gainsay him that constitutional right. But I do ken of the philosophy that it is not everything that you can do that you do. I ken that as a fact.
“And I was party to the incident. Our president, His Excellency Goodlcuk Jonathan was in the meeting. I was in the meeting in the Villa, in the First Lady’s Conference Room when the issue of zoning came, when the issue of whether he would be sanctioned to contest in the first place came.
“This was after he had surmounted and was consummating Yar’Adua’s tenure.”
Adamu verbalized that it was because of this promise from the President that made the leadership of the party and the governors to sanction him contest with the hope that the slot would come back to the north after four year’s of Jonathan’s presidency.
He insisted that it was pellucid to all that Yar’Adua didn’t consummate the slot of the northern region afore he died.
According to him, “He was given the opportunity to contest and it was pellucid it would come back to the North because the rotation is north and south. That is the rotation essentially.
“As far as PDP was concerned, Yar’Adua had the northern slot so to verbalize and he didn’t consummate his tenure. He, as vice president, surmounted which is okay. After surmounting he wanted another shot, and he was sanctioned.
“Before the Convention, a decision is conventionally taken that this is the person to fortify, maybe one or two candidates or so. He was out there. He was an incumbent president. He subjugated Atiku. And he concurred to do only one term.”
He verbally expressed if the President decided to seek another term, he would be infringing the accedence.
“By running, he is absolutely reneging on an accedence. I am verbally expressing I was in PDP. I was part and parcel of an accedence for the puissance shift. I’m saying our dear president was a component of that accedence,” Adamu insisted.
Meanwhile, more facts had emerged on why the Federal Regime withdrew the corruption charges filed against Mohammed Abacha, son of a former dictator, Gen. Sani Abacha(retd.).
It was learnt that the President, who is likely going to pick the presidential nomination of his party in 2015, had been prevailed upon to fortify Mohammed to additionally pick the PDP governorship ticket in Kano Sate.
Mohammed was virtually picking the ticket of the defunct Congress for Progressives Change in 2011 afore such zeal was truncated by the Presidential candidate of the CPC, Gen. Mohammadu Buhari(retd).
Buhari had reasoned that it would be morally erroneous for the son of the former dictator to run for the office of a governor because of the numerous cases of corruption hanging on his neck.
Besides, Mohammed has additionally returned sizably voluminous sum of mazuma to the coffers of regime from the proceeds of corruption from his family.
Mohammed had been incriminated of receiving glommed property worth N100.38 billion, but the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Adoke Mohammed (SAN), applied to court on Wednesday to withdraw the charge.
A presidency source verbalized, “You ken that Mohammed had since defected to the ruling party. We ken he is popular in his home state.
“This is the season of politics and we are yare to play it. Mohammed is a popular person in his state. If he can win election for us there, why not!.”
