Members of the Miyetti Allah cattle rearers association on Monday purchased the 2023 presidential form for former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the next Presidential election.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the group, purchased the form for the ex-president on Monday ahead of his expected declaration.
Recall that Jonathan, while addressing some youths who stormed his house a few weeks ago, urging him to join the presidential race, said he was not ready.
At the moment, it is unclear if Jonathan would accept the form to join the race.
Jonathan is yet to announce his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC.
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Africa Daily News, New York recalls that the former Governor of Bayelsa had taken over power when the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua died in 2010 and contested the 2011 election, which he won.
He lost his reelection to President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and acknowledged defeat before the final collation of the election results.
Africa Daily News, New York gathered from reliable sources that two influential governors from the northern part of the country are behind the return bid of Jonathan.
Multiple sources, who are in the know, said the two governors, close to Buhari, have secured the buy-in of a section of the presidency to actualise their agenda of drafting the former president into the presidential race.
While one of the governors is from the North West, the other is from the North East geopolitical zone.
The two governors have been playing key roles in the affairs of the APC in the last few years.
In the last seven years, the former president has not been attending activities of his party. This is just as his romance with President Buhari and top shots of the ruling party takes the centre stage, a development that has pitched him against opposition leaders in the country.
