There are indications that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and some other past leaders of the country are rooting for the current governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido to run for the Presidency in the next year Presidential election on the platform of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
It is on record that Obasanjo, who brought in Goodluck Jonathan to run as Vice President to late Umaru Musa Yar’adua, had recently expressed anger with President Jonathan who he said promised that he would do only a term which is supposed to terminate in 2015. Obasanjo has since suspended himself from PDP with a provision that he would return to the party only when President Jonathan honours his promise.
Former President Obasanjo has no basis for his grouse with Jonathan considering that Jonathan is eligible for a second term. Obasanjo isn't being moralistic by turning Lamido, another PDP member, against Jonathan. It is an attempt to stir the hornet's nest in the party. Obasanjo, on his own part, tried to change the Constitution during his administration in order to provide for a third term. He hasn't changed, and I doubt if he would.