Ex President, Jonathan Shows Worry Sends Crucial Message To National Assembly Over Next Presidential Elections

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said that the current trend of off-cycle elections may affect presidential polls in Nigeria.

Describing the trend as odd, Jonathan urged the National Assembly to enact a law that prohibits off-season elections in the country.

The former Nigerian leader spoke on Saturday after casting his vote in the governorship poll at Ward 13, Polling Unit 39, at Otuoke in the Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.

Like Bayelsa, governorship elections are held in Imo and Kogi on Saturday.

However, Jonathan, who was Nigeria’s President between February 2010 and May 2015, said off-cycle polls should be struck out and harmonised with the general elections.

Jonathan, who leads international election observers to other countries, noted that with the way things are going in Nigeria, the presidential election might become off-season.

“Off-session election almost happened in 2007 when I contested as a running mate with President Umaru Yar’adua but it was prevented,” Jonathan said.

“I get worried by the issue of off-season elections. And I use this opportunity to plead with the National Assembly that we need to block these off-season elections. It is very odd; it is not a global best practice.

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We make mark with different things and most times it is the least one that one becomes fondly remembered for.

GEJ was a deputy gov, gov, vice president and president but he will forever be remembered home and away as a champion of democracy.

That alone erases all the goof that marred his administration.

Speaking of this off-season elections, our legal personnel can guide us through on how it can be harmonized within the law

Good man.