The Presidency has accused Goodluck Jonathan’s aides and those close to Aso Villa of spreading false news and images implying that President Muhammadu Buhari is endorsing Jonathan to replace him in 2023.
President Buhari, the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adamu Abdullahi, and Alhaji Mamman Daura, according to sources, do not support Jonathan’s administration.
Sources questioned how Buhari, who just called the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) administration a failure, could now be endorsing the PDP’s leader as his successor.
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“Former President Jonathan is clearly not in the picture at all,” a knowledgeable Presidency source told The Nation.
“The mentioning of his name has been invoking feelings of absurdity and ridicule in the Villa.”
According to Anaedoonline.ng, two northern governors and some close advisers to the president were implicated in a conspiracy to make Jonathan the governing party’s consensus candidate.
According to reports, the president has taken steps to avoid Buhari from being connected to a Jonathan presidency.
Photos of meetings between the previous President and the incumbent are not allowed to be given to the public at this time, for example.
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“The plot alive in the media by releasing photos of his visits to the APC Chairman and Alhaji Mamman Daura to insinuate that these two gentlemen are in support of the plot,” a source said.
However, Villa sources stated that Jonathan will not be stopped from visiting Buhari because he is in good standing with the president and due to his international assignments for which he has to regularly brief Buhari.
The source recalled: “When, during a public interview earlier this year, a journalist asked the president to use one word to describe the PDP, he instantly said ‘failure’.
“How then would the same person who feels that way strongly then be contemplating supporting the same PDP candidate he roundly defeated?”
According to the source, “it’s the aides of the former president that are going to town to create such an impression.”
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The source added: “All of these plots would be over in a matter of days as the APC presidential primaries are now irretrievably set and the President’s choice would be known.”
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