2015: Jonathan’s opponents cannot stop his re-election says former Sylva’s aide Any Nigerian politician opposed to the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 is working against what has already ordained to happen, so says a former Special Adviser to Governor Timipre Sylva on Niger Delta Affairs, Mr. Jude Tabai. Speaking with Vanguard in an exclusive interview in Abuja on Tuesday, Tabai warned that the desperate attempt by politicians to demonise Jonathan and stampede him from enjoying his constitutional two terms was unacceptable to the people of the Niger Delta. Tabai, who also played a prominent role in the Niger Delta struggle, pointed out that it was unfair for politicians to stoke the embers of violence in the Northern part of the country all in a veiled bid to bring down the Jonathan administration. The former adviser described the current Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast as a political weapon being employed by those opposed to the present administration to weaken the government and pave the way for the opposition to take over. Tabai said: “Jonathan as a Nigerian has the right to contest and it would be very unfair for anyone to try to stop him from contesting in 2015. If you don’t want him to be president in 2015 the best way is to campaign against him at the poll. “But it is unacceptable for anyone to incite bombing and killings just to give Jonathan a bad name so as to lose the election. “It will never and can never work in this country. And we the people of the Niger Delta will not fold our arms and allow him to be pushed away just like that,” Tabai warned.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:41:00 +0000
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