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National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu Monday night in Abuja hosted former President Goodluck Jonathan, confirming what had been rumours that the former president has defected to the ruling APC

Monday’s meeting came barely three hours after a group of Fulani cattle breeders paid N100 million to buy an APC presidential nomination form for the former president. It was also the first meeting between Jonathan and the leader of any political party since Jonathan left office in 2015.

Speaking shortly before buying the form at the International Conference Centre, Abuja, leader of the Fulani group, Ibrahim Abdullahi, said Jonathan was the first president since Nigeria’s independence to be magnanimous to them.

He said: “Remember the almajari community, he brought a comprehensive policy of reformation and intergretion of the almajari into the mainstream educational system in Nigeria. It was the dream and the vision of President Goodluck Jonathan that if that programme had continued it would one day produce from the almajiri system of education; doctors, engineers.

“Unfortunately, that programme was kept aside as soon as he left. Other parts of the community (the vulnerable community) that Goodluck Jonathan wanted to really give a sense of belonging was the Fulani community, the nomadic pastoralists.”

Sources close to the Monday night meeting told Pointblanknews.com.that both men, who were colleague-governors between 2003 and 2007, “exhaustively discussed” the former president’s aspiration to return as president in 2023.

“You know Senator Abdullahi Adamu and former President Goodluck Jonathan were governors of Nasarawa and Bayelsa respectively between 2003 and 2007. They both were in PDP. By divine arrangement, both are now in the APC,” a source close to the meeting stated, adding, “God works in mysterious ways.”

Curiously, whilst former President Jonathan and the APC national chairman were meeting, a statement emanated from the office of the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation disassociating Jonathan from the Fulani group

“It has come to our notice that a group has purportedly purchased Presidential Expression of Interest and Nomination forms of the APC in the name of former President Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
“We wish to categorically state that Dr Jonathan was not aware of this bid and did not authorize it.

“We want to state that if the former president wanted to contest an election, he would make his intentions clear to the public and will not enter through the back door,” noted the foundation.

However, sources close to what transpired at the Monday night meeting told Pointblanknews.com that the statement may have been made to in response to the barrage of questions from journalists on the matter, and the inability to reach the former president “who was meeting his party’s national chairman.”

A source noted, “Forget what the Jonathan Foundation said. If, as they would want us believe, their principal had yet to join APC, what was he doing in the private home of the APC national chairman in the dead of the night few hours after a group bought him the party’s presidential form?”

She confirmed that the former president has indeed joined the APC in his ward in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, and affirmed that her boss would “win the 2023 presidential election on the APC platform.”

She continued, “N100 million isn’t N1 million. It will be wicked and the height of insensitivity for President Goodluck Jonathan to reject the presidential nomination form from the Fulani group on the flimsy excuse that he wasn’t in the know, or that he’s not a member of the APC.

“After all, why did he lose in 2015? Was it not the same people posturing as PDP who betrayed him in 2015? Political parties are not religions. Even if they were, we have seen people who have changed their faiths, and the heavens did not fall. APC national chairman and national secretary were staunch PDP members. Nobody should hold Jonathan to double standards, please!” she noted

She also drew attention to a tweet, same Monday night, by President Muhammadu Buhari’s media aide, Bashir Ahmad.

“So Goodluck Jonathan has dumped the opposition PDP and now member of our great party, the All Progressives Congress (APC)”, tweeted Buhari’s spokesman.

For emphasis, Ahmad added, “No one will give out N100 million to buy Presidential forms from a party he’s not a member of. The primary criterium for parties to sell their forms to you is that you must first be a registered member”.

It would be recalled that Jonathan had last month, while responding to calls by thousands of youth supporters who urged him to contest the next presidential election, failed to give a definite answer. He merely asked them to “watch out “

GEJ is coming

Tinubu can go to hell for all we care

#GEJiscoming should be trending world wide right now

Gej abeg leave Apc for Tinubu..

You still get future .. chai!

Nigerians love you and will vote you anytime .. no go rush things

No go fall our hand..

We want Tinubu on Apc ticket no be you..

Anyways Na his decision

Power to the people
North 2023

Jonathan simply went there to warn Adamu to desist from accepting frivolous nomination form request on his behalf.

tell it not in Israel!

Jonathan is the Consensus Candidate with Ahmed Lawan as Vice.

Anybody shouting GEJ please don’t run, save what is left of you honor, bla bla bla is either a Thiefnibu, Atiku or an Osinbande Urchin.

They all know with Jonathan on the ballot, it’s Uhuru for their candidates.

I just keep wondering about those people killing thereselves because of this same politicians

People wey fight because of them last year
How market now na ?

This political cruise dey sweet me
Like people killing thereselves because of you while you jump from one party to another

Omor men
This kind Cruise shaa

Toh

This one go enter Tinubu no be small.

This one go enter Tinubu no be small.

Asgard13:
Gej abeg leave Apc for Tinubu..

You still get future .. chai!

Nigerians love you and will vote you anytime .. no go rush things

No go fall our hand..

We want Tinubu on Apc ticket no be you..

Anyways Na his decision

Power to the people
North 2023

I bet you never saw this one coming did you?

As much as I detest APC as a political party, I'll vote for Jonathan over any candidate pdp present...... even if it's Peter obi

The die is cast
I am interested to see the magic Jona would do in 4 yrs only

Proverbs 22:1
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
President Jonathan and other well meaning Nigerian leaders has to meditate and act on this, before it is too late

APC teaching Nigerians in a hard way.

After calling him those names and even blaming him for the poor economic performances. So he is a good man

Fight over these politicians at your peril. Lol

gasparpisciotta:
Jonathan simply went there to warn Adamu to desist from accepting frivolous nomination form request on his behalf.

So Adamu should refuse the 100 million Naira the mumus are willing to pay for the form? E be like say poverty they play extra time for your mind?

omowolewa:
APC teaching Nigerians in a hard way.

After calling him those names and even blaming him for the poor economic performances. So he is a good man

Keep deceiving yourself, please tell me one difference between APC & PDP Members?

BlazinGlory40:
I bet you never saw this one coming did you?

Nope..

But over here in North.. they want him .. they keep comparing him to Buhari
Buhari made him a saint even in the face of boko
Tinubu and Yoruba deceived them .

And they trust him too.

But Gej going to Apc .. I no see am and I never believe am .. till he talk.

The pressure is much

Last year I told them with the way things are going here ..
it might end up being Gej and Atiku

They thought I was lying .. then it was September ..

It’s not about media .. propaganda .. reason why I always counter Reno .. he’s not on ground

The North want power back .. the elites .. but the almajiri s want Gej and Na dem Dey rig and vote not the elites

Gej will win Atiku in the North.. and divide Pdp in the south

Apc is playing the cake well

But I want Tinubu to also be on ballot

Apc ballot for me

I want yoruba to understand their place in Nigeria
Print media is stale and they need to upgrade

Nigerians are no more in the 80’s and 90’s now every interior village have access to information and not on Yoruba platform

As for igbos .. their elders are confused .. and the youths .. they don’t know what they want and don’t know how to go about it

Buckeyemedia1:
So Adamu should refuse the 100 million Naira the mumus are willing to pay for the form? E be like say poverty they play extra time for your mind?

I don’t dignify people like you with response, but since you have displayed your shallow mindedness openly, let me school you a bit.

GEJ as a former President, reserves every right to ensure that his name is not dragged into any form of issues that might affect his reputation.

If he really wants to be President again, he knows what to do and how to go about it.

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omowolewa:
APC teaching Nigerians in a hard way.

After calling him those names and even blaming him for the poor economic performances. So he is a good man

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APC teaching the west in a hard way.
The west betrayed Gej so they can have power next year, the north picked same Jonathan as there consensus so as to get back to power after 4yrs.
Your greed will kill you.
You all should leave GEJ alone, I want to see Tinubu and his urchins in pain too.
By the time the north is done with you lots you people will cry separation more than the east cause you can't even take half of what the Igbos have taken in Nigeria.

alsudan:
Jonathan is the Consensus Candidate with Ahmed Lawan as Vice.

Anybody shouting GEJ please don’t run, save what is left of you honor, bla bla bla is either a Thiefnibu, Atiku or an Osinbande Urchin.

They all know with Jonathan on the ballot, it’s Uhuru for their candidates.

But why is Jonathan afraid of direct and indirect if he's so popular as you claimed?

Why does he want to come in through the back door (Consensus)?


The truth is the plans will fail woefully. Jonathan cant be APC flag bearer come 2023 presidential election. It's not possible.

Dreams is allowed.