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Jonathan Doesn't Seek Reelection, But Tenure Elongation
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President Goodluck Jonathan allegedly isn’t interested in
running for reelection in February 2015. Instead, Mr.
Jonathan and his most trusted associates are surreptitiously
plotting to build a consensus for a two-year tenure
elongation for the president and other public office holders
across the country.
According to SaharaReporters, this presidential design was learnt
two months ago. SaharaReporters’ investigations since then
reveal that Mr. Jonathan and his most trusted associates have
been working underground to sell the plan to some lawmakers,
governors, and political office holders tagged “key stakeholders.”
It indicates that the president and his trusted allies are still
playing the card close to their chests, ensuring that they sound
out only those political actors deemed likely to be sympathetic to
the plan. One strategy, according to one source, is to seek
support from governors who are already in their second and
terminal term as well as senators and members of the House of
Representatives who may be vulnerable to challenge in an
election. Among the political personalities identified as tacitly
backing the elongation plan are Senate President David Mark,
Governors Martin Elechi of Ebonyi, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta,
and Segun Mimiko of Ondo, former minister Kema Chikwe, the
chairman of the PDP’s board of trustees, Tony Anenih, and Ijaw
political figure, Edwin Clark. At various times, both Mr. Mark and
Governor Elechi have insinuated that the 2015 elections may not
hold, hinting at severe security challenges.
Sources who spoke to SaharaReporters on the plan included
several legislators in Abuja and aides to two PDP governors. They
disclosed that President Jonathan intends to defend the
politically explosive scheme on two grounds.
One is that a general extension of tenure, for a minimum of
eighteen months, would be necessary to enable Mr. Jonathan to
shepherd the creation of a new constitution. This argument rests
on the need for Nigeria to fashion a constitution that
incorporates some of the important recommendations of the
national confab convoked by President Jonathan and chaired by
retired Chief Justice Idris Kutigi.
According to several of sources, the Jonathan administration
plans to contend that the task of writing a new constitution
should be resolved before Nigeria is subjected to another
potentially volatile general elections.
“We should not see this as a matter of Mr. President trying
to stay longer in power. The fact of the matter is that we
should address the constitutional issues first before talking
about another election,” said a source who is a confidant of
Governor Elechi.
The source added that the sheer task of going through the
voluminous report submitted by the national confab on August
21, 2014 would require “almost a year of hard work.” According to
him, it would be politically suicidal for Nigeria to go through
another election and transition on the basis of the current
constitution “which most Nigerians are dissatisfied with.” He
added: “If elections happen next year and President Jonathan
wins, he may no longer feel the need to push for
constitutional reforms. If another person wins, then that new
president may not make a new constitution a priority. That
means that this country will be back to square one. It will
also mean that all the efforts we made in the confab would
be in vain.”
President Jonathan’s other argument for tenure elongation is
that he needs about two years more in office to stabilize Nigeria
by finally handling the security crisis posed by Boko Haram. A few
sources disclosed that the president intends to make a strong
case to potential critics in the US and European Union that the
situation in Nigeria’s northeast zone is so dangerous that it
would be impossible to hold elections in the area. He would
pledge to devote the extra time in office to a decisive plan aimed
at dislodging Boko Haram from all parts of Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan
is expected to cite the recent string of successes by the Nigerian
military against insurgents as proof that he has a formula for
defeating Boko Haram.
Nigeria’s political calendar sets aside next February 2015 for the
next set of elections, but President Jonathan has not formally
declared his intention to run. Our investigations revealed that
the president’s silence is deliberate, part of his strategy for
pursuing tenure elongation. Mr. Jonathan is reluctant to ratchet
up the rhetoric of elections because he wants more time to
quietly fine-tune and sell the option of a two-year tenure
elongation.
Opponents of any form of tenure elongation contend that
President Jonathan wants to avoid an election because he is
scared of losing to the opposition. “He has had six years to fix
the security problems and also advance a new constitution,
but failed,” said an Abuja-based activist. The activist added:
“President Jonathan may also be afraid of a possible
constitutional crisis. The Nigerian constitution forbids
anyone running more than two terms in office. The president
has been sworn in twice already, once to complete the tenure
of [the] late President Umaru Yar’Adua and then as
substantive president in 2011. There is likely to be a legal
challenge seeking clarification on whether he can run and
possibly rule Nigeria again.”
A source at the Presidency stated that Mr. Jonathan had sounded
out some members of national confab about the idea of the body
declaring that he should be given extra time to complete a
constitutional process, but the response was not encouraging.
“Those who were consulted in the confab felt that any talk of
elongation would have divided the confab. So they asked us
to try alternative ways.” The investigation also revealed that the
Presidency considered the idea of using the Boko Haram
insurgency as a pretext to declare a state of war, thereby shelving
elections. That plan also fell apart.
Mr. Jonathan’s current approach is to send his associates to
approach potentially sympathetic senators and members of the
House of Representatives with the proposal of a new constitution
as justification for tenure elongation. The investigation disclosed
that the latest approach has met with mixed reactions.
Several senators who spoke anonymously with SaharaReporters
disclosed that Mr. Jonathan’s emissaries spoke about postponing
the elections for two years in the interest of “Nigeria’s unity.” The
sources said legislators who are most likely to lose elections
seemed enthusiastic about the prospect of elongation. Two
senators also admitted that the president’s associates are likely
to win over some legislators because of their ability to offer hefty
sums to bribe those willing to support the elongation agenda.
A political adviser to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said
he had heard speculations about extending the tenure, but said
he had no independent confirmation of it. However, he stated
that Mr. Jonathan must be scared of running in an election in
which most northern voters will be against him along with a
significant number of southerners voters disenchanted by the
president’s non-performance.
He said that Mr. Jonathan’s electoral fortunes would be
precarious in all the northern states because of the divisive
nature of the president’s governance style.
“Apart from Benue and Plateau states and a section of
Southern Kaduna Christians, the president has little chance
of campaigning let alone winning in the north,” said one of
the critics of tenure elongation.
A strong opposition also looms in the southwest, except in Ondo
state where Governor Olusegun Mimiko might help sway voters.
But Mr. Mimiko’s electoral boost may have fizzled with the
governor’s mismanagement of state resources that has led to the
non-payment of workers salaries for at least four months.
Reportedly, Mr. Jonathan will likely win easily in the five eastern
states as well as the Niger Delta zone, but votes from the two
areas would be insufficient to steer him back to Aso Rock.
Besides, the enthusiastic welcome received in Imo State over the
weekend by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military head of state
and opposition presidential aspirant, suggest that some parts of
the southeast may not wholly back Mr. Jonathan.
The president also faces considerable political threat in Rivers
State. Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s opposition to Jonathan’s
candidacy suggests that the electoral victory figures cannot
simply be written.
Several political sources, activists and pundits predicted that Mr.
Jonathan’s tenure elongation plan would be doomed in the same
way that other such plans, hatched by retired General Ibrahim
Babangida, late maximum dictator, Sanni Abacha and former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, also collapsed.

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