2015: Why Jonathan shouldn’t run —Kwankwaso Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State says it will be out of place for President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election in 2015, because he will be ineligible to so contest. The governor, in an interview in Abuja,argued that President Jonathan,having served first as acting President and now spending a fresh four year term,ought not to seek re-election. He said that the generality of Nigerians would have kicked against a similar move by any other person. He said: “ Of course to us, their (Umaru Yar’Adua/ Jonathan) term started in 2007. He was two years vice president; he was two years president. 2011 to 2015 will be four years, so if you add the two, whether you want to say eight years or six years, depends on who is doing the arithmetic. “But for them, they aretpretending that they started in 2011. I saw them talking about it on television, that they are just two and a half years old in government. They started long before 2011, almost two years. I am not a lawyer, but I kept on seeing eight years everywhere, and two plus six plus four cannot be eight, that is if you don’t consider his days as vice- president or acting President. “Even from 2015 to 2019tunder normal circumstances, they are looking for extending the four-year term to six years. So, you can see how the extension keeps on moving on and on.” Describing third term as attaboo,Kwankwaso added: l “Under norma circumstances, many people won’t worry, especially if the economy, if the security, if the development of the country, was moving very well. “Unfortunately, we all know what is happening. The economy is not good; the security is not good, especially in the North- East and many parts of the North, and I think this is the time for Mr. President, the Commander-in-Chief to come out and do the right thing. The right thing is to come out sincerely to either negotiate or fight what is happening in the North-East and others. I think the days of pretence should be over.” thing.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 11:00:40 +0000
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